Allow me to show you how this is done in Lotus Notes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMYP_RNdZf4
Its a built in functionality for every Lotus Notes view. It also search inside File Attachments. :) The *fill out example form* is a good idea for regular users. António 2011/9/23 Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> > I agree. > > On Sep 23, 6:50 am, Ross Peoples <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a very cool feature! However, I don't think regular users will > know > > how to use this. For one, you have to know the field names. You have to > know > > that "First Name" is actually "first_name" and that "E-mail" is actually > > "email". Is there a way to make these queries easier for users? Maybe a > help > > button or something that gives field names and explains the other > operators > > (contains, is, etc). Or even doing per-field filtering like explained > > here:http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=424 >

