Search custom fields in the contacts module

[jades]

Hi, been trying to figure this out for a couple of months
I followed this link and a few others http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showt...h+custom+field but this looks like the most up to date one
I got nowhere.
I did add this to the vardefs.php in the contacts module but did not work. Basically I create an account number for each person and want to search that way with unified search

	'accountnum_c' =>
		array (
			'name' => 'accountnum_c',
			'rname' => 'id',
			'id_name' => 'accountnum_c',
			'vname' => 'LBL_ACCOUNTNUM',
     		      'type' => 'id',
			'source' => 'non-db',

		),

I am hoping I missed something very simple. I did delete the unified file in the cache in the modules folder

Thanks so much

[blitz2190]

you don't need to add it to vardefs if it is already created, you can do what is in the last post of this thread but as it says it is not upgrade safe, and will not survive a quick repair rebuild.
http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54907

EDIT

Never mind my first link

just found this, http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47909 5th post down, worked for me