Search Improvement: Search for contacts with partial search
Issac Rosenberger
Business Problem:
Currently, it is difficult to search for contacts using only partial information, such as the last four digits of a phone number. This limitation impacts the efficiency of locating specific contacts and messages quickly.
Desired Outcome:
- Implement a feature that allows users to search for contacts using partial phone numbers, such as the last four digits.
- Enhance the message search functionality to support partial text searches.
- Use Case: Users need to quickly locate contacts and messages without knowing the full phone number or exact message content.
Platform Limitation:
The current search functionality does not support partial searches for contacts or messages, making it challenging to find specific information efficiently.
Current Workaround:
Currently, users can use the filter option to search for contacts by the last four digits of their phone number. This can be done by filtering the contacts using the "Contact Field Phone Number contains" option with the 4 digits. While this isn't ideal, it provides a temporary solution.
Jaime Cardenas Castro
Yes, this is very frustrating because it makes my agents waste time trying to locate a conversation. The same thing happens with WORDS. For example, you want all conversations with the word "complaint" in it. You have to type "complaint" with all its letters, no more, no less, otherwise you don't get any results. But it would be very useful to be able to just type "complain" and that way you get all conversations that have "complain", "complains", "complained", "complaint", "complaints", "complaining", etc and that way it would be much easier to retrieve conversations. This is just an example of how to apply this functionality but there are many more where typing just the beginning of a word or phone number would be very helpful.
Jay Lim
This feature is needed!
Amalia Putrieka
Hi Issac Rosenberger thanks for your feedback!
Currently, you can use the filter option to search for contacts by the last four digits of their phone number. Simply filter the contacts using the "Contact Field Phone Number contains" option with the 4 digits. I understand this isn't ideal, but it could help for now.
Additionally, could you please provide any more details or specific use cases that would further help us improve the search functionality?
Hope to hear from you soon!
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Spacenter
Amalia Putrieka it's not working also
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Nabilah Binti Salleh
Spacenter: Hi there, thank you for sharing your comment with us. You can setup via the Advanced Filters - read more here: https://respond.io/help/inbox/inbox-overview#filter-and-sort
If this doesn't help you solve your use case, please reach out to our support team here: https://respond.io/contact