Author Topic: Advanced Search doesn't find non-Primary email addresses (Read 727 times)

websynapse · October 21, 2010, 01:31:11 pm

Recreated on the demo site. I created a contact:
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/contact/view?reset=1&cid=118

Using Advanced Search for their Billing address, newperson2@example.com, gets no results.

Intentional? How do I find non-primary emails?

Donald Lobo · October 21, 2010, 02:27:29 pm

you might want to check and test if search builder allows u to find non-primary emails

if not, you might want to consider contributing code to help make this happen. note that in general for performance reasons you dont want to search all emails, so potentially u'll need a checkbox to indicate whether to include all emails or not. You can potentially also do this with a custom search

lobo

Upperholme · December 05, 2012, 08:01:27 am

I know this thread is rather old, but I've just come across the same issue in version 4.2.6: Basic and Advanced Search only appear to search primary email addresses. There is no mention of this in the documentation, and I think it is fair to assume from the implications given in the UI that a search for an email address will search the entire database for all email addresses, and not just those tagged as 'primary'. If there are performance issues arising from employing a broader search, then all that is needed is clarification of the guidance in the UI, to something like "Name or Primary Email" instead of "Name or Email" in the basic contact search.

Michael McAndrew · December 05, 2012, 11:50:53 pm

Hey Graham,

Submitting a UI patch and editing the book to reflect this is a good idea and not to hard if you want to do that.

Not sure amount the reasons that we don't search all email addresses, but i suspect it is performance as you say and/or not overcomplicating that query which is complicated enough.

It is was performance, it could always be added as a search configuration option, but that would add more complexity to that query / more opps for bugs to creep in.

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