Search by any record field

[dcornford]

Hi everyone

My Sugar (Community Edition) seems to be only searching for matches in the 'Name' field, meaning that my sales team can only search for the 'Names' of companies, but any other search attempt (the company's product name or brand name in those custom fields) will not work and no results are returned.

How do I enable Sugar so that I can search for information in any field? (i.e. if a lead has a company name of 'Brandx' and a product of 'killer iphone application' I can put either Brandx or killer iphone application into the search field and it will return a result of the lead with this data in the relevant fields).

[andopes]

You can use the global search instead, it is pretty easier to customize.

Cheers

[dcornford]

Thanks Andopes

I saw the posts in the thread: Enabling global search for custom fields and modules

This seems to say that I need to create this 'search.php' file in each module that has the custom field that that I want to search for. Is this correct?
I have the custom field 'App Title', so I am reading this that I have to create the search.php in all modules that contain this custom field and the PHP code would be the following (this is an example of the PHP code for the leads module):
$dictionary['LEADS']['fields']['FIELD']['rname'] = 'apps_title_c';
$dictionary['LEADS']['fields']['FIELD']['vname'] = 'LBL_APP_TITLE';
$dictionary['LEADS']['fields']['FIELD']['type'] = 'relate';
$dictionary['LEADS']['fields']['FIELD']['dbType'] = 'varchar';
$dictionary['LEADS']['fields']['FIELD']['table'] = 'table_cstm';
$dictionary['LEADS']['fields']['FIELD']['unified_search'] = true;

This is where the Field Name = apps_title_c and the System Label = BL_APP_TITLE

Can you let me know what I will have to do to add multiple custom fields to the global search.

Hope that you can advise if this is correct and then I'll get started!