It sounds like you want to search for people, and Person is a type of
Party, so you're looking for a Party search.
There is Party search functionality in the Party Manager, it's
actually the main page there (or click on the Find menu button near
the top).
The current functionality does support non-case-sensitive searches,
but does not replace special characters with ASCII characters. You
could somewhat easily modify the findParty service (which is what the
Party Manager Find screen uses) to do that.
-David
On Mar 26, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Valentina Sirkova wrote:
Hi,
I need to implement "smart" search which should not take into
account spanish special characters, but their ascii equivalent
instead, examples are á, í and so on.
For instance we might have entered as a person last name into the db
"García", but when searching we would like to find this last name no
matter if we write "Garcia" or García.
Do we have such functionality in OFBiz and if not could you give me
some suggestions/tips for starting such implementation.
Thanks : Valentina
