Question

My tableview is in this user interface:

But when I start search the view gets changed as :

I want that when user starts search the view should be the same as I have used headers for different fields, like headers should be there and searched data should be shown under the same headers at its place?

Is it possible?

I am using this code:

In viewDidLoad:

// create a filtered list that will contain products for the search results table.
//filteredListItems = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:[listItems count]];
filteredListItems = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:[self.listVehicles count]];

// restore search settings if they were saved in didReceiveMemoryWarning.
if (self.savedSearchTerm){
    [self.searchDisplayController setActive:self.searchWasActive];
    [self.searchDisplayController.searchBar setSelectedScopeButtonIndex:self.savedScopeButtonIndex];
    [self.searchDisplayController.searchBar setText:savedSearchTerm];

    self.savedSearchTerm = nil;
}

[listTable reloadData];

Then another method:

-(void)viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated {

self.searchWasActive = [self.searchDisplayController isActive];
self.savedSearchTerm = [self.searchDisplayController.searchBar text];
self.savedScopeButtonIndex = [self.searchDisplayController.searchBar selectedScopeButtonIndex];}

In searchbar methods:

//search bar implementation
- (void)filterContentForSearchText:(NSString*)searchText scope:(NSString*)scope{        
NSPredicate *resultPredicate = [NSPredicate 
                                predicateWithFormat:@"SELF contains[cd] %@",
                                searchText];

self.filteredListItems = [self.listVehicles filteredArrayUsingPredicate:resultPredicate];}

- (BOOL)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller shouldReloadTableForSearchString:(NSString *)searchString {
[self filterContentForSearchText:searchString scope:
 [[self.searchDisplayController.searchBar scopeButtonTitles] objectAtIndex:[self.searchDisplayController.searchBar selectedScopeButtonIndex]]];    
return YES;}

- (BOOL)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller shouldReloadTableForSearchScope:(NSInteger)searchOption {
[self filterContentForSearchText:[self.searchDisplayController.searchBar text] scope:
 [[self.searchDisplayController.searchBar scopeButtonTitles] objectAtIndex:searchOption]];
return YES;}

Thanks

Answer 1

You should implement UISearchBar without(!!!) the SearchDisplayController. Go to your xib file, if you search for “search bar” in the right tab you will get 2 result. you should icorporate to your project only the searchBar.

another solution, just return NO to:

- (BOOL)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller    shouldReloadTableForSearchString:(NSString *)searchString {
[self filterContentForSearchText:searchString scope:
[[self.searchDisplayController.searchBar scopeButtonTitles] objectAtIndex:[self.searchDisplayController.searchBar selectedScopeButtonIndex]]];    
return YES;}