[Vtigercrm-developers] Email marketing scenario

[Alan Lord]

On 20/07/16 11:50, Alan Bell wrote:
>
>> 3. Does the search engine need any special search attributes?
>>
> not really, we do get a bit of a query language for free by using
> elastic search, but these are users who just want to type in words or
> phone numbers or dates and have the system find stuff.

For anyone interested, you can try it out on our demo server:

http://geotools.libertus.co.uk/index.php

Just start typing anything in the normal search box at the top of any page.

After three characters it will start sending stuff to the Elasticsearch 
server and displaying results in a popup.

If you want to you can go to the Vlastic Search view, which shows 
multiple ListViews of results on the same page with pagination too.

e.g.: 
http://geotools.libertus.co.uk/index.php?module=LSVlasticSearch&view=Search&value=smithf*

This demo system has about 120,000 records in it but it could have lots 
more...

The manual explains some of the search language capabilities, such as 
AND, OR, parenthesis, wildcards etc...

But if you type in "smith" it will find all records that has the word 
smith in them somewhere.

If you wanted to find something like smithfields (a meat market in 
London) you could type smith* or smithf* for example.

Cheers

Al