Search across collections

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I have Specify 7 Version:v7.9.6.2 installed. I followed the steps below to enable search across collections : Allow Queries to Search All Collections in a Database
however, when i search the collection name from another collection, the system returned 0 results. am i missing any thing?

Here are preferences included under Global Preferences:

#Global Prefs
#Mon Apr 15 22:23:59 AWST 2024
FixSpAuditLogFields=true
RELEASES=6.8.03
FixedSpQueryOperators=true
FixUploaderRecordsets=true
FixedGTPTreeDefParents=true
FixPaleoContextTypeSearch=true
FixNullEmbeddedCollectingEvents=true
FixNullTreeableFields=true
FixPaleoContextSearchView=true
GEONAMES_LAST_MOD=1677708482000
FixNullDatePrecisions=true
FixedUnmappedSchemaConditions=true
FIX_DEFDATES_PREF=true
CHECK_ATTCH_ERR=false
fixSymbiotaExportSchema=true
FixedUnMatchedWBSpecifyUserIDs=true
CollectingEventsAndAttrsMaint1=true
ExsiccataUpdateFor1_7=true
GLOBAL_SEARCH=true
GLOBAL_SEARCH_AVAIL=true

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Hi @kitchenprinzessin,

This capability is not currently available in Specify 7 and that setting only changes the behavior in Specify 6. I’ve added your mention of this to our GitHub issue tracking this capability:

You have configured it properly, but unfortunately, this must still be implemented in Specify 7 before it can be set up to perform a cross-collection search. If you have a particular query you would like to make on the database, please let me know and I can do my best to help you retrieve that information! Sorry for the trouble– that documentation previously did not clarify that this configuration change only applied to Specify 6.

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@Grant thanks for the updates. if we can search samples across collections by name, project, catalognumber that will be great!

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I am glad to learn about this, we are still ‘stuck’ in S6, but glad to learn there are tools we can look at leveraging!

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