Model Query operator for Contains doesn't sub spaces with %

Hi Dan,

I’m not sure how your search is set up, but if you’re able to use the setting to Tokenize search terms, this should do what you’re after. Is that option visible in the search settings? If so, does it get you any closer to the behavior you want?

Hey Mark,

Great question but unfortunately I wasn’t clear 😦

I’m using a model query so the option to tokenize search isn’t there. The reason I’m using a model query is my use case:

• Create new Accounts
• Show potential duplicates
• There is no action to populate a search component (without code) to show potential duplicates (which would be ideal)

If it would make sense for your scenario, could you prompt the user to enter separate first and last names? If so, you could then use them separately in model conditions. Then, you could set up condition logic that looks for condition 1 OR 2 to be true. 

Hey Mark,

I solved for the Consumer scenario but not the Business one where the Account name is truly one value.

My specific use case aside, I’m surprised the Skuid team isn’t replace a space with a % in contains query; that would be considered standard if I wrote the code/queries manually because it would improve search results.

Thanks

Dan

There are places where the search terms are tokenized, which does what you’re describing. Components like tables, queues, decks, or any that have a search field built in, can tokenize. Here’s what the query generally looks like from that kind of search using the search string test ABC:

SELECT RecordTypeId,Name,Id FROM Account WHERE (((Name LIKE ‘%test%’))AND((Name LIKE ‘%abc%’))) LIMIT 101

Do you suppose you could repurpose one of these components for the purpose of searching?

I’m also testing the Search Component and seeing that it seems to tokenize the search terms. You can define actions that the page should take when a user selects a search result, so perhaps the first step in your account creation process would be to search for duplicates, and if one is found, fire off an action sequence that allows the user to select that one instead of creating a new one. If you need one set of actions for a Person Account and another for non-Person accounts, you could use branch actions to check for this on the clicked result in Return Action setup. That’s a very simple summary, but it might be worth checking into further. 

Hi Dan,

A colleague suggested that one more way to do this might be to create two conditions on your model. The first one says the name of the person you look for has to start with your string (Match for first name).
The second one would have to end with your string (Match for last name)

Then change your conditional logic to say either 1 or 2 has to be True.

Is this something that might work?

I solved for the Consumer (first and last name) scenario but not the Business one where the Account name is a single name (e.g. Acme Corporation).

Understood. You’re right that you can’t declaratively pre-populate the search term in a search component, but you do have a great deal of control over how the search behaves, as well as what actions happen when a user clicks on a search result. So, I’ve often seen the search component used as a first step in looking for potential duplicate records.  A common approach would be to start by asking a user to first search for potential duplicates before creating a new record. If they see an existing record they’d like, then they can click on it, and that click would fire off whatever action sequences you need to take the user to the next step in their workflow (create a new reference to the selected record, create a new event associated with the selected record, and so on). The search component should also search more quickly thanks to SOSL, and it will tokenize its search terms.