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Attachment Search
November 13, 2011, 11:22:29 pm
Is it possible to search for attachmentsin CiviCRM - and if not (I found no trace of it in the documentation) then would there be a simple way to implement it?

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Re: Attachment Search
November 13, 2011, 11:29:48 pm
E.g. in an Activity it would be great to not just add attachments, but also be able to search for activities with attachments.

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Re: Attachment Search
November 14, 2011, 01:16:35 am
Can you clarify?

An attachment custom data field can be added to just about any section of CiviCRM. When the custom data field is created and used, then searching for attachments would be accomplished using advanced search.
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Re: Attachment Search
November 14, 2011, 01:30:54 am
There is a civicrm_api('file','get',$params) action - never tried using it
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Re: Attachment Search
November 14, 2011, 07:09:09 am

If you mean, search within attachments: civicrm does not do that. We'll need to adopt a different approach to search if we want to do that (since the attachments are stored outside of mysql)

I think civicrm needs to add a more generic (and faster) searrch engine like Solr/Lucene. this will allow us to also include attachments in the search

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