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  • 11/19/2014 at 3:54 am #310381
    IT Department
    Participant

    I’m using Slim Plus. If I search for words contained in custom fields, I get no results. Is it possible to include the custom fields in the search function? Or can search be extended in any way, to filter by custom fields?

    11/19/2014 at 9:41 am #310387
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ roy

    Not quite yet … it’s a work in progress. I’m still researching how to add this support so it is efficient. The big issue is custom fields could be anything. The latest version of Connections does include a few filters within the search code that can be hooked into to add custom search results. If you added you own custom field … you could hook into these filters, do a custom search and add your results to the search results. Does that help?

    11/19/2014 at 11:17 am #310406
    IT Department
    Participant

    How about a simple fulltext query?
    Btw. I also can’t search the text contained in Biography and Notes field.

    11/19/2014 at 11:42 am #310410
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ roy

    If the custom field happens to a text field, sure, that’ll work fine but not all custom fields will be “text” fields.As an example, business hours. My thought is plugins that add custom fields should hook into the search hooks I previously mentioned and perform their own search since those plugins “know” what their data is.

    To search the bio and notes fields … make sure you have those fields enabled on the Connections : Settings admin page under the search tab.

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