Search patern - Match any word

Self-Hosted | v5
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Hi

I would suggest a different search pattern. Match any word.

For example, if a company is called:

Ministry for self-defense in Europe.

searches that would match it:
ministy self
ministry defense
defense europe

The way it is now you have to match all words and space in exact order. It’s unnatural.

Br,
Dali

2

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback, we’ll look into it.

3

Thank you Hillel.

Basically match any matching characters and it can be inside any words.

For example
Ministry for self-defense in Europe.

nistr fens rope world match it.

Br,
Dali

Br,
Dali

4

The problem with that approach is it can match more records than expected (I believe it’s how v5 used to work). I think we can improve how spaces are handled though.

5

I’m only referring to a quick search for Clients and Products inside the quote/invoice. User still needs to click on selection while filtered.

But it’s not a big issue anyway. Maybe I was too fast with this post.

Thank you

Br,
Dali

6

Thanks again for the feedback, you’re right that it can be improved.

7

We’ve implemented this change in the next release.

We’ve added an “Enable Flexible Search” option to Settings > Device Settings to toggle the behavior.

Thanks for suggesting it, I agree it’s a better experience.

8

You are amazing!

Thank you

9

It works great! Just tried it!

Thank you for such a great work and always prompt response.

Br,
Dali

10

Happy to hear it, thanks for the suggestion!

11

Hi Hillel

In practice this does not work as I thought. I had to turn it off. Too many matches. There seems to be misunderstanding. You did it in a way that it matched any character. It should just match all consecutive characters for example:

company: test example

est = true
xamp = true
es ex = true

tstxmpl = false

Br,
Dali

12

Thanks for the feedback, we’ll look into it.