Automatically add an Asterisk to “Quick Find” Search

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Posted on by Hamid Tahmasbi

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Hi all...

If you or your clients are tired of entering asterisks at the beginning of each search, it's an unsupported workaround to make life easier :

It has been tested on Microsoft CRM 2011 Rollup 8, and it had no side effects...

1. Go to the following path and find "stage.js" file
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\CRMWeb\_static\_common\scripts\"

2. Create a backup copy of this file before any modification, so that you have the original copy too

3. Open "stage.js" in a text editor such as EmEditor

4. Find the following line of code:
sFindCriteria=Trim(findCriteria.value.replace(/[\*]+/,"*"));findCriteria.value=sFindCriteria;

5. Now change it to :
sFindCriteria=Trim(findCriteria.value.replace(/[\*]+/,"*"));if (sFindCriteria != "" && sFindCriteria.substr(0, 1) != "*") sFindCriteria = "*" + sFindCriteria;findCriteria.value=sFindCriteria;

6. Save the file and try Quick Find to see the change

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Gus Gonzalez 27,113 on at

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Thanks for sharing Hamid!

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G Christenhusz 5 on at

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Great tip Hamid. Do you anyway to do the same for the Online version of CRM?

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Karth on at

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That's a good one Hamid. Deserves a blog article.

Thanks for sharing.

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heguangm 795 on at

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That did not work. I made the change at the server side, and reset IIS.

No effect on Outlook Plugin and web UI. Even I added an js alert: did not see alert show up so did not work.

I have CRM 2011, 5.0.9690.3731 (Rollup 16). Did not apply the most recent rollup 17 yet.

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