How to fire the search event on a filter builder?

[jay.l.fisher]

I'm trying to create a custom widget that incorporates a FilterBuilder but adds some additional functionality and UI components. One of those UI components needs to fire the search event on the FilterBuilder to trigger any SearchHandler that has been added to it. There is no FilterBuilder.search() method. How do I fire that event?

[jay.l.fisher]

Found the example I needed on this thread. It's a different event, but it demonstrates the event firing and handling technique.