Global Search - Can we prioritise results?

5 years later this is still an issue. Idea 22510 https://portal.sugarondemand.com/#supp_Bugs/23510 may apply?

In my case, if you do a global search for a company name i.e. "Acme", you get all the Contacts at Acme listed ABOVE the Account record for Acme.
Changing the order of modules in Admin > Search does not change the search result order.

And trying to change the weighting (boost) as per https://support.sugarcrm.com/documentation/sugar_versions/13.0/ent/application_guide/search/#Admin_Configuration doesn't work in this case, because what we really want is the `accounts.name` field boosted (which we have done), but then the field `contacts.account_name` is a relationship... and we can't adjust the boost for this field.

If we could prioritise a module over another (per idea 22510) or if we could de-prioritise/de-boost a relationship field for a module, we could resolve this.

Anyone have other suggestions?

I was pretty sure I had filed a case/bug for this precise issue but can't find it.

We do not use global search and use the email address filter on individual modules instead precisely because of this problem.

Unfortunately, the list-view filter won't even work when searching by a non-primary address (Bug #77949 Unable to filter for secondary emails opened in v7.8 in 2016)

FrancescaS

Thanks Francesca