[Vtigercrm-developers] Do "OR"-searches in listview?

socialboostdk socialboostdk at gmail.com
Fri Mar 12 15:44:13 GMT 2021


Hi again,

Yes Alan - that makes sense. Just before I dive in - does it offer both the
"OR" and "AND" searches? :D

On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 16:35, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure if the comma works by design, or is just luck. I didn't
> even know it worked myself until I tried it the other day.
>
>
> For better control of search, may I humbly suggest taking a look at our
> Vlastic Search module [1]? It uses a backend Elasticsearch(*) server
> that indexes everything, so you end up with very powerful search
> features across _all_ data in vtiger ;-)
>
>
> * I am aware of the recent licensing issues with Elasticsearch. although
> the changes make no real difference to smaller enterprises, I will be
> looking at the possibility of supporting one of the forks in due course
> as well.
>
> [1] https://marketplace.vtiger.com/app/listings?id=448
>
>
> On 12/03/2021 15:20, socialboostdk wrote:
> > Wow - this is actually *brilliant* Alan, I had no idea :-)
> >
> > I forgot to mention that I also need to be able to search where we need
> > 2 keywords (or ideal sentences) found in the same text - so effectively
> > an AND search, but where they do not have to be located in the same text.
> >
> > So if we where to use this email as an example I want to find "keyword"
> > and "Alan", and it would show up because both words are found in it,
> > despite not following each other.
> >
> > Does this make sense? :-)
> >
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 17:10, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com
> > <mailto:alanslists at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Try with a comma... It works on a text field. See attached
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 10/03/2021 16:02, socialboostdk wrote:
> >      > Hi all,
> >      >
> >      > Any ideas on how to do "OR" searches in Vtiger 7.x - preferably in
> >      > listview?
> >      >
> >
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