Summary

Searching for an object in a reference object attribute produces the error "We couldn't complete the search for your objects."

Environment

Cloud

Diagnosis

• In Assets, you can create an object reference attribute.
• In this example, we have the Objectreference2 attribute linked to the Printers object.

• When you try to select an object for the reference, it throws an error: "We couldn't complete the search for your objects."
• Confirm if an AQL further filters the object reference attribute by 'Status':
  • Go to the object reference attribute.
  • Select the three dots and 'Configure'
  • Switch to the 'Filter Objects' section:

• We can see in this example that the above AQL filters the 'Printers' object.
• Navigate to the referred object, in this example 'Printers' and manually run the AQL "Status" NOT IN ("DAMAGED")
• It produces a 500 error:

• With the above example, we can conclude that the issue lies with the 'Status' attribute in the Printers object.
• For the Status attribute, by default, it only allows 1 as the Maximum:

Cause

• This happens because there's an object that has 2 statuses set and the Maximum cardinality only allows one.
• To identify the object, run an export: Export Objects
• On your export file examine the Status column and identify the object(s) that have more than one.

Solution

• Re-save the status in the UI for the identified objects that have more than 1 status.