Hi Alan,<br><br>"Patricia Johnson" is combination of (firstname, lastname) fields. Hence the search fails, but<br>splitting the value succeeds in either firstname or lastname.<br><br>Providing search on combination of fields might not be generic, the solution could end-up<br>
specific or targeted on few fields which needs to be thought about.<br><br>Look at modules/Home/UnifiedSearch.php which handles the Global Search feature,<br>you will need to customize the query generated to lookup on combination of fields.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Prasad<br>vtiger Team<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/11/10, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Lord (News)</b> <<a href="mailto:alanslists@gmail.com">alanslists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Is this what most of you would classify as a bug?<br> <br> Using the search facility in vtiger, if you search for the name of a<br> person using both first & last names it fails to find a match.<br> <br> Example:<br> <br>
In the demo data there is a lead who is called Patricia Johnson.<br> <br> In the search tool If you search for "Patricia" *or* "Johnson" then it's<br> fine.<br> <br> However, if you search for "Patricia Johnson" it fails to find a match.<br>
<br> To be honest I was pretty amazed by this. I kind of understand why it is<br> the case, but surely, when you have a large database, searching for<br> combinations of fields would be fairly common practice?<br> <br> Should this go on Track? I might try and create a patch before<br>
submitting it. But without looking at the code yet am not sure how much<br> work this would entail to fix.<br> <br> Cheers<br> <br> Al<br> <br><br> <br> --<br> The Open Learning Centre<br> <a href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com">http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com</a><br>
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