Contacts / SmartLists

Configuring Searchable Fields for Objects

This feature allows admins to configure which fields are searchable for their location.

Once updated, this change reflects for all users and impacts every place where the object can be searched, enhancing the flexibility and customization of searches.

In This Article

Feature 1 Configuring Searchable Fields for Your Organization

Admins now have the flexibility to update the fields that are searchable for objects such as Contacts, Opportunities, and Custom Objects. This feature allows for streamlined search customization and offers regex search capabilities for specific fields.

For Contacts and Opportunities you can search for upto 6 fields.

For Contacts Contact Name, Phone Number and Email Address are mandatory and cannot be removed from the searchable fields.

For Opportunities Opportunity Name cannot be removed from the searachable fields.

Feature 2 Admin Only Access

The ability to configure searchable fields is available only to admins. Users do not have the ability to make these changes.

Feature 3 Changes Apply Globally

Once the change is applied, the change will reflect across all contact search bars in the platform.

For Contacts, that includes:

Contacts Search bar

Global Search Bar

Creating a new message in Conversations

Creating a new appointment in Calendars

Creating and Updating Tasks in Contactsimage

Contacts and Additional Contacts fields in Opportunities

And also across the following modules:

DashboardWorkflowsFormsSurveysPaymentsInvoices
Documents & ContractsSaaSAffiliate ManagerEmailsClient PortalCustom Objects

Feature 4 Regex Search

Users can take advantage of regex for more tailored searches.

However, please note that regex will not work on fields like contact names, phone numbers, monetary values, numeric fields and other similar fields.

Regex supports:

: Searches for records ending with "abc."

: Searches for records containing "abc."

: Searches for records starting with "abc."

Regex search does not work on fields like contact name, phone numbers and monetary values

How to update your searchable fields?

Launch the Subaccount Settings Custom Fields

Go to the kebab menu (3 dots) on the top right and click on "Edit searchable fields"

Select the object you want to update the searchable fields for.

Select fields that you want to mark Searchable.

Save and confirm the changes.

The searchable fields are now updated for all modules and users in this account.

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