List view text search

On the record list view it’s possible to perform text search.

The field list, which is used in filtering, can be configured at Administration > Entity Manager > Edit specific entity type > Text Filter Fields.

It’s possible to use the wildcard *.

There is an option to use ‘contains’ operator for varchar fields by default. Parameter is available at Administration > Settings. Note, that it can affect performance.

Global search

Global Search performs a search in multiple entity types simultaneously.

The list of entity types used in Global Search can be configured at Administration > Settings > Global Search Entity List.

The field list which is used in filtering can be configured at Administration > Entity Manager > Edit specific entity type > Text Filter Fields.

Full-text search

Provides the ability to perform much faster and comprehensive text search.

Full-text search can be enabled for a specific entity type at Administration > Entity Manager > Edit specific entity type > Full-text search. Running rebuild is required. Run from CLI: php rebuild.php.

Full-text search is always applied in the Global Search (for entity types with enabled full-text search).

Full-text search is also applied when you search in the list view. Though it can be skipped for some search queries. Yet, it’s possible to force a full-text usage by prepending ft: to the search query.

For InnoDB tables the following operators are available:

• + A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present.
• - A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present.
• (no operator) The word is optional, but the rows that contain it are rated higher.
• * The truncation (or wildcard) operator. Appended to the word to be affected.
• " A phrase enclosed within double quotes must be contained literally, as it was typed.

Minimum word length

The MySQL option ft_min_word_len defines a minimum word length available for full-text search. By default it’s set to 4. You might want to set it to 3 to be able to search shorter words.

If you change this paramater in MySQL, you also need to run rebuild in Auto.

Stopwords

MySQL has a list of stopwords that are ignored by full-text search. E.g. hello.