[v11] custom field - not found by 'Global Search'

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I am creating a custom field (data) in the customer Doctype.
I have checked the In Global Search box as below …

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… but still the content of that field is not found when I use the Global Search

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can someone advise how to get over this?

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There is a bench command that starts to index your records. I’ve used it a couple of times and it’s worked well.

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  1. I guess you saw this coming … do you remember which bench command exactly?
    just went through bench --help, but nothing really rings a bell
  2. would the indexing start at some point automatically?
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hi, maybe you just need bench clear-cache or bench clear-website-cache(i am not sure) and clear the cache in the browser

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thanks for the hint. It didn’t work though unfortunately

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and which version do you use? I’ll try to replicate on my side

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v11 (staging branch)

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it seems it a related to the content of that field

I am in a Chinese/English bilingual environment and my usecase is to have the translated customer name. Let’s say the customer is a chines company we’ll have the Chinese Characters in the customer_name field and the Translate English Name in the custom field (witch is labelled Translated Name).

As long as it is this way around (Chinese Characters in the customer_name field & English in the custom field) the Global Search will find both strings.

Just when Chinese Characters are in the custom field translated Name the Global Search does not find it.

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hmmm, I am not sure)) I’ve just tried

I have ERPNext v11.0.3-beta.21 () (staging) and Frappe v11.0.3-beta.26 () (staging)

I use English, I created new Customer Danny Vargas with Translated Name Hogan and didn’t receive any result) neither for Danny Vargas nor Hogan :slight_smile:

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here is what I get when the default customer_name has the Chinese Characters “试试客户” and the custom field translated_name has the englisch test customer (which is also the string I am searching for in the Global Search

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This does not really make sense to me as I would assume everything is on utf8 and likewise should be able to recognize any sort of characters?

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I agree with you but not sure if it works.

and sorry, I don’t know why but from my side it doesn’t show Translated Name in search dialog and didn’t give me any result if I search test customer

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Found it :wink:

bench --site [sitename] rebuild-global-search

https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/issues/10951

and yes it should be on the bench help too :wink: A very useful command !

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