Author Topic: Is there a way to search for events by name? (Read 1373 times)

sonicthoughts · February 09, 2010, 08:55:30 am

We have 150 events. Want to find and tag participants who went to an event with the name "couple" in it (ie. "couples lunch") but I can't figure out how to search for event titles - any ideas? note that search builder offers participant fields and includes an "Event" field, but it is incorrectly labeled - it should be "Event Number" as it does not actually look up the event name. I realize this might require customization but was wondering if there is a creative way to accomplish this. I suspect it is a common use case.

Kiran Jagtap · February 09, 2010, 09:09:57 pm

You might want to take a look for Find Contact using 'Advanced Search' feature.
here you can find contacts those are participant for given event w/ event name and tag those contacts.

kiran

sonicthoughts · February 09, 2010, 09:19:07 pm

Thanks for the reply Karen. I did try that, but unfortunately,the advanced search for events does not accept wildcards (in 3.0 at least).

Kurund Jalmi · February 10, 2010, 07:58:29 am

You will have to select an event. You cannot use wild cards for autocomplete widgets.

Kurund

sonicthoughts · February 10, 2010, 08:03:31 am

I see - how about partial matches? shouldn't it work just like contact name. If I have 3 events with the word "Summer" shouldn't it accept "Summer" and return 3 events. It looks like it only accepts event numbers in the auto-complete fields.

Kurund Jalmi · February 10, 2010, 08:13:23 am

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I see - how about partial matches? shouldn't it work just like contact name. If I have 3 events with the word "Summer" shouldn't it accept "Summer" and return 3 events. It looks like it only accepts event numbers in the auto-complete fields.

Currently partial/wildcard search is not possible. You can only select one event at a time.

Kurund

Donald Lobo · February 10, 2010, 08:14:26 am

your short term solution might be to build a custom search to meet your needs

lobo

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