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SusanKSusanK 

What do you need from SOSL (search API)?

Are you a developer who uses SOSL? Maybe you want to use SOSL but can't because it's missing something?
    We want your feedback!
    Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL) allows you to submit search queries via the API to Salesforce's native search and specify what data to search in and how the results are returned. We want feedback on SOSL from developers so that we can improve on it and fix any problems you're having with it. Post answers to the following to this thread:

      • What are you using SOSL for?

      • What do you wish SOSL did that it doesn't do today?

      • Did you attempt to use SOSL but couldn't because something was missing?


      If there's something missing that you'd like to see, post it to the IdeaExchange. Here's an example you can check out about the 200 record limit on results returned from SOSL queries:  http://ideas.salesforce.com/article/show/65660/.

      Link to SOSL documentation


      SusanK
      Apex Platform Product Management

      Message Edited by SusanK on 04-13-2007 06:12 PM

      Message Edited by SusanK on 04-13-2007 06:18 PM

      SteveBowerSteveBower

      I've added:

      Add "WHERE" clause after SOSL's RETURNING clause.
      http://ideas.salesforce.com/article/show/65684/Add_Where_clause_after_SOSLs_RETURNING_clause

      and

      User specified Persistent SearchGroups
      http://ideas.salesforce.com/article/show/65685/User_specified_Persistent_SearchGroups

      to ideas.  Thanks for asking.  Steve.

      SusanKSusanK
      Both great suggestions, Steve - thanks very much!  Adding a WHERE clause for SOSL is a top priority and is in development right now.  User-defined search fields is a great idea, too.