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jfo
jfo

Hi,

I'm struggling to figure out how to override the default search (on list search, recordfinder widget, relation widget, ...).

Let's suppose I have a list displayed on a recordfinder with the following items:

id       name
1        AN ITEM ON THE 1ST POSITION
2        2ND ITEM AFTER THE 1ST ONE
3        1ST ITEM THAT COMES AFTER THE SECOND ITEM IS THE THIRD ITEM
4        ANOTHER ITEM - CONTAINING THE EXPRESSION 1ST ITEM BUT NOT AT THE BEGINNING

If a user types 1ST ITEM all four records are filtered and visible because all of them contain the tokens 1ST and ITEM.

What I need to achieve is: when a user types 1ST ITEM only the third record 1ST ITEM ... is displayed - because is the only one actually starting with the typed search term.

How could I customize/extend the data model - or the search widget - for use the whole search term instead of search for records containing its parts?

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axomat
axomat

Recordfinder has a new option "searchMode" which you need to set to a value of "exact"

Only available in the latest dev release.

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