suiteCRM needs a better way to search documents

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Recently I started using Alfresco to manage my documents. The search capability in Alfresco is incredible. It does a full text search through all of my pfd documents and returns the results before I can lift my finger off the key. Here is a link to a page I found that talks about the technologies they used to accomplish this. They talk about the Top three technologies: Solr Cloud, Elastic Search & Amazon Cloud Services. And to build the solution it appears they used Apache Manifold CF - the Open Source project from Apache Software Foundation Framework.
This is all way over my head. I am just posting this suggestion in hopes that it will be of use to those who are of greater ability than myself; who may endeavor to take on such a task. If you can implement this search functionality I believe that this search feature alone would cause many to choose suiteCRM over sugarCRM CE. Thank you for your time and consideration.

http://www.zaizi.com/blog/the-next-search-generation-in-alfresco-is-here

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Hi Todd,

SuiteCRM already features AOD which utilises Lucene/Zend. There are plans for Solr integration on the roadmap.

AOD is constantly being improved and bug fixes applied to improve the search functionality.

Thanks,

Will.

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Thank you for the follow up. Can you tell me how to enable full text search on my uploaded documents. I am getting zero results. For example I enter something like this “NFW7300WW01” into Alfresco and I get all the documents that contain that model number. I try the same thing in suiteCRM and I get nothing. I also try wild card search “%NFW7300WW01” and I still get nothing. I really want to use suiteCRM to store and search documents. Is there some setting that I need to enable?