searching on custom/linked fields

[grendel67]

I've successfully tweaked the Meetings listview to add some additional fields from Contacts (phone #, department) and they are even sortable. However, I'm having difficulty with searchability on these add-on fields. I can alter searchdefs.php to get field labels on the search forms, but there's no text entry area for the input values.

[andopes]

You need to create these fields into Meetings extended vardefs (custom/Extension/modules/Meetings/Ext/Vardefs/) as non-db fields.
You also will need to create a custom controller for Meetings to be able to set a new Meetings object on action_listview function.
This Meetings object should be an instance of a new class which extends the default Meeting class.
And you need to implement inside this new class the method create_new_list_query to create the ListView query properly.
I mean, Sugar will try to find these Contacts fields inside the Meetings table, what will crash the query.

Regards