Search all sortable fields?

  • pallisvans

    (@pallisvans)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hi and many thanks for a great plugin. I’m using it for inserting museum records.
    The only thing that baffles me is the search.
    Instead of the dropdown-list and selecting each sortable field, can I have one search for all sortable fields?

    For example if I have 5 sortable fields:
    1. Name
    2. Model
    3. Description
    4. History
    5. Place of origin

    The search would search all of them at the same time and return the results.
    Is that possible?

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  • Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    It’s only possible if you develop your own search code, the built-in search function can only search on one field at a time. The plugin has an API with filters to hook in your own search code.

    neonerve

    (@neonerve)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    How would you even start to make this happen?

    Thread Starter pallisvans

    (@pallisvans)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Is it something you don’t think of as a valuable feature for the plugin Roland!
    I would pay for that feature because the plugin is nearly perfect in all other ways.

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Yes, it would be a useful and valuable feature, and I’ve got it in the works as an add-on plugin, but at the moment my efforts with the main plugin are getting the next major version out. It includes several code improvements that make multiple-field searches easier to implement.

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