Would be nice to have a patch for this, although the issue is performance. On Wednesday, 1 August 2012 22:55:49 UTC-5, Cliff Kachinske wrote: > > This situation caused me to create an alternative to grid, which I will be > publishing soon. > > Having thought through the problem, I may look at submitting a patch to > incorporate my approach. > > > On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 4:14:48 PM UTC-4, Mike wrote: >> >> I'm also trying to get around this issue - anyone have any >> recommendations? >> >> On Monday, July 2, 2012 12:08:46 PM UTC-4, simon wrote: >>> >>> When you have a grid with a reference field then the search >>> functionality does not work as expected. >>> >>> For example grid shows: >>> >>> Owner Dog >>> John Basil >>> >>> However any search for John shows no records because the owner field is >>> an integer in the database but has format set to display it as name. >>> >>>
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