You learn something everyday and I just learned that I can't search on an Association. Is is true that Associations are not a searchable function? And aside from Aliases are there any other workarounds I haven't thought of? We are looking at how we set up Foundation and Corporate Accounts and thinking of using Associations to track trustees and employee which would work ideally in our model if we could search by Associations.
Elizabeth Carlock
Director, Ticketing Services
The Granada
ecarlock@granadasb.org
We also use the alias field for searchable associations.
Another solution might be to create attributes for contact types and use a name as the value. For example, an attribute of "Primary Contact" might have the value of "John Smith." Then you could use the Attribute Search mechanism (probably with the "like" operator) to find the associated Foundation/Corporation record that contains this name as an attribute value.
~Dan