Search contact & Regular expression

[the_steff]

Hi there !

I tried to use regular expression with your contact search engine but it doesn't seem to work. Example of request "student grade3 -exStudent".
In my case, it concerns particularly the exclusion symbol '-' which is very usefull as teacher to keep student contact even if they leave the course. The problem is I often need to select just the one category, the ones who are in the course and sometimes, just the ones who leaved the course years ago.

Thanks for your work !
This feature will definitely make me leave my actual "free" webmail

[rm13]

So you're not using contact groups? E.g. Current student group and past student group. If you're going to tag them with a keyword anyhow, you could move them to a different group.

A dash is not exclusion for a regular expression... but I guess you're looking for search engine behavior like google excluding a word.

[the_steff]

So you're not using contact groups?

Actually... no     
I think it's because with my old Thunderbird application, it was'nt possible to affect more than one group to a contact and I found the search function + keyword an answer to this problem with Zimbra.

Thanks, this feature you tell me give me the right solution !