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Fabien (Open ERP) (fp-tinyerp) wrote : Re: [6.0] cannot search partner by 'ref' code

It's available in:
  - the tree view (only if you use the extended view).
  - the name_search (so selecting a partner from a many2one (SO, PO, ...) will search on ref=)

It's not in the search view because we tried to limit to search view to important fields, max 5 fields per width. (you can still on the "+" icon to add a filter on any field). The 5 fields are: name, contact, country, category, saleman. The ref is not as important as one of those.

I think that using code for partners is a bit "old school". Most of the customers will not use a code for each partners, that's why it's in extended view only. The customers that needs this are those that migrated from an old software that managed partners using codes in the many2one fields.