LG TinyMCE WYSIWYG custom fields won't return search results

Thanks Leevi - I tried it out, but I’m still not able to search through my WYSIWYG fields. Adrienne, can you confirm whether it worked for you or not?

Strange. LG TinyMCE just adds the TinyMCE script to the header of the page. It doesn’t change the underlying textarea.

I’ll try and check this out later in the week.

Hi. I’m curious if there has been any progress regarding this problem. I also updated LG TinyMCE to 1.3.3 and still have this problem. Thanks.

I actually had to disable the LG TinyMCE Plugin for now but came across this: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewreply/481323/. Maybe force the issue of where to search and use “search_in parameter” in the opening tag.

Hope this helps and works.

Hi All,

I too am experiencing this issue - and in the Control Panel’s Edit tab when looking for text within a custom WYSIWYG “body” field.

I’ve updated to: ExpressionEngine: 1.6.7 TinyMCE: 3.2.1.1 LG TinyMCE: 1.3.3

When I change this custom field to “Textarea” the search works great. But when set as “WYSIWYG” no results are returned.

This is kinda big as the website is for a newspaper and the database is currently populated with 35,000+ news stories (dating back to ‘95) and the client would need to search the body field.

Any assistance from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks, Dominic

Hi Leevi - just checking in to see if you’ve had any luck with this error.

-Manoj

Just a historical note, I’m on:

EE 1.6.7 Build: 20090122 LG TinyMCE: 1.2.1 TinyMCE: 3.1.0

Yeah, old versions, but the search works with wysiwyg fields. This is a good reminder for me, not to upgrade anything until I hear back from this thread … or at least go test it on a staged site first.

Hi Leevi, have you had a chance to revisit this issue re: custom fields not returning search results in the EE CP? I’m on EE’s latest build, but still unable to get results.

jo22 or newspaper lover - any luck?

Thanks, Manoj

Hi Manoj and All,

No, I’ve had no luck in getting results. The “workaround” I suggested to my client in the interim has been to use the site’s front-end Advanced Search (which is set to search “everywhere”) and find the title of the entry that has the content they are looking for. Then use the title within the Control Panel, to find/edit the entry. Not very great.

Any updates, Leevi?

Many thanks, Dominic

Hi Leevi, hi all, the following 2 sites do not return search results in wysiwyg field. Search for the custom field is set to ON. CP > Edit > type in keywords > select search title and entries and no results.

Another site, latest, greatest: EE 1.6.7 Build 20090320 LG TinyMCE (v.1.3.3) TinyMCE 3223

Another site, old: EE 1.6.7 Build 20090122 LG TinyMCE (v.1.2.1) TinyMCE 310

Funny. I know I posted above that it worked but now I’m not sure where and what site and what versions were they.

Leevi/Anyone?
If we pool our $$ together, how much to get this fixed? 😊

Also would love a workaround for this.

EE 1.6.7 Build 20090211 LG TinyMCE (v.1.3.3) TinyMCE 3.2.1.1

edit - adding the search_in parameter to the form tag and setting it to “everywhere.” Did solved this for me. Didn’t realise that by default EE only searches titles, unless you specify otherwise (using the search_in parameter).

Thanks peteburgess

::friendly bump::

Just curious to see if any progress has been made on this… I’ve had several clients ask me why the feature isn’t working properly.

Thanks, Manoj

Anything new on this?

Had the same issue noted here and came across this thread. Adjusting the search to search_in=”everywhere” addressed the problem of the WYSIWYG search.