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#1 2017-02-17 08:39:09
- phiw13
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Search for contents of custom fields (admin side)
It would be nice if it was possible, probably together with the custom fields revamp, to search – from the admin side – for the content of custom fields.
For example, I have a custom field named CSS (there is some magic going on there, on the article panel it displays as “Style”…). I wish to find (on the Articles panel) all articles that have the value “foo” for that field. At present search returns nothing.
TIA.
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#2 2017-02-17 14:37:18
- trenc
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Re: Search for contents of custom fields (admin side)
yab_cf_article_list is what you are looking for.
Last edited by trenc (2017-02-18 11:47:19)
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#3 2017-02-17 15:05:07
- jakob
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Re: Search for contents of custom fields (admin side)
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#4 2017-02-17 22:47:36
- phiw13
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Re: Search for contents of custom fields (admin side)
Yes there are various extensions that can find the content of custom fields (I use “smd_where_used“ myself). The point is, if custom fields become a more important citizen, an extension should not be needed.
And for custom fields that actually output content, that should be available to search from the front-end side of things, like, for example, a custom field that stores additional meta-data about images.
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#5 2018-03-01 16:58:58
- jayrope
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Re: Search for contents of custom fields (admin side)
I second phiw13. In fact i secretly dream, that smd_tags, custom fields and categories could be multifunctionally merged. Ai ai ai.
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