[Vtigercrm-developers] Right way to fix annoying Search Drop Down?

[Alan Lord]

Hi,

We've had a few customers mention that the default selection in the 
Search drop down on ListViews is annoying. Especially for Leads, 
Contacts and Accounts. They would prefer it to be a name, not the record 
No. by default.

I did a bit of digging and added a small mod to the ListViewController 
class which takes the "No." field and sticks it at the end of the list 
rather the beginning.

public function getBasicSearchFieldInfoList() {
   $fields = $this->queryGenerator->getFields();

   // Small mod to re-order the Search Drop Down list to put 
{Lead,Contact,Account} No. at the end rather than the start
   if ( in_array('contact_no', $fields) || in_array('account_no', 
$fields) || in_array('lead_no', $fields) ) {
     $num = array_shift($fields);
     array_push($fields, $num);
}
// End mod

Now I'm not sure if the best way to do it but it seems to work OK.