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In the Magento Admin I can search products by their name and SKU and different other values. I can add more colums to the grid using special modules, and then I can use those columns for searching as well. I think this is too limited.
Is there a module that can search on all product fields, including the custom attributes? The same goes for orders and possibly other admin pages.
Try the "Global Record Search" at the top of all Magento admin pages.
increment_id, and shipping and billing addresses firstname, lastname phone and zipcode. It also searches the customers but only firstname, lastname and company.
Because of Magento EAV design it would be extremely slow to do a search on every field, however you could create your own module that plug into Global Record Search
Take a look at Mage_Adminhtml_Model_Search_Customer
In your config.xml
...
<adminhtml>
...
<global_search>
<matt_car_test>
<class>matt_car/search_test</class>
<acl>matt_car</acl>
</matt_car_test>
</global_search>
...
</adminhtml>
Read more at Adding your custom module to Magento’s Admin Global Search
You could also rewrite the default search and add your custom fields
<global>
<models>
.......
<adminhtml>
<rewrite>
<search_customer>MagePal_AdvanceGlobalSearch_Adminhtml_Model_Search_Customer</search_customer>
<search_order>MagePal_AdvanceGlobalSearch_Adminhtml_Model_Search_Order</search_order>
</rewrite>
</adminhtml>
</models>
</global>
