Global Search Includes Completed Tasks

[robbyslaughter]

I've searched through the forums and not found anyone else talking about this. If you search for a keyword that is in a Task, Global Search will return all tasks---even those that have been completed.

Is this something that can be changed? I don't think so at present, but it would be a nice feature for a future version of EspoCRM.

Of course one can search within the Tasks section itself and filter out tasks with Status = Completed, but it would be helpful to have this configurable for Global search,

[item]

Hi,

In Admin/settings General tab, you ccan add Task entity in Global Search "Defines which record types are searchable with Global Search."

[yuri]

Currently we don't have such an ability. It's often appropriate to show completed records as well. Having a global parameter to switch between modes might be not the best solution. The question is how to switch between modes without complicating the UI.

[robbyslaughter]

Currently we don't have such an ability. It's often appropriate to show completed records as well. Having a global parameter to switch between modes might be not the best solution. The question is how to switch between modes without complicating the UI.

Something like this is what I would imagine:



The left hand side with the dropdown would work as it does for any list search---some predefined options.

For the right hand side I think you'd need a two level menu, first to list the entities that were configured. Something like: