HubSpot Ideas

fenstermakera

Be able to search notes in CRM (within or across contacts)

Basic CRM functionality missing.  Need to do a keyword search.   

HubSpot Updates
Re: Be able to search notes in CRM (within or across contacts) - changed to: Delivered
March 28, 2018 12:15 PM

The ability to search on notes has come out of closed beta and is live in the product to all customers!

In Beta
October 03, 2017 03:19 PM

This feature is currently in Beta for a randomly selected group of portals. Will be available for everyone soon.

In Planning
August 24, 2017 05:45 AM

In Planning
August 24, 2017 05:03 AM

62 Replies
Debs
Participant

Not sure what the point of adding a note is if I can't search on this field later. Very disappointed

bkeller
HubSpot Product Team
 
bkeller
HubSpot Product Team
 
lemcontour
Member

Hello i understand this feature is in planning, could we please have an update as to when this is expected to be ready?

thanks LM

SalesLD
Participant

Yeah, this is really ridiculous. 

I love the tool but you are lacking some essential capabilities, especially for $50/month!

bkeller
HubSpot Product Team

This feature is currently in Beta for a randomly selected group of portals. Will be available for everyone soon.

jameshahnii
Participant

YES!! Thank you!!

mmedveczky
Member

+1 for global search, a functionality much needed!

RS
Participant

Very interested in this feature too! 

maxinelebreton
Member

I'm also in agreement.

I am part of a software company where we use Hubspot to compile all correspondance with current and potential users. Specifically, we note any potential upgrades mentioned by a client. It would be nice to search some key words and see how many of them have the same or similar requests. 

This is just one example of the benefits this search functionality would have for my team. 

hvy_weight
Contributor

I agree with many of the previous blog posts. I can't believe that this is not already incorporated! How hard is it to search a digital database?  Being able to search contacts for keywords in the notes and calls and messages and emails to / from that contact is so important.  The pat response from Hubspot that you can create a custom field is just simply not an acceptable solution. 

aalvarado
Contributor

Please give an ETA for this function.

 

My intended usage

I want to be able to filter contacts by their attendee status to functions that are not integrated with HubSpot.

I'd create a note per attendee which would say one of the following: Event - Canceled; Event - Attended; Event - No Show and then filter my contacts by choosing "Notes" in the filtering section of Contacts; choose "equals" and then enter one of the notes above i.e. Event Attended. Then I could send an email to just everyone who attended.

 

If there is a current way to do this, please let me know.

 

 

 

ACTION
Participant

Agreed. This is very important to have for a CRM tool, and adding this feature could make a big difference for users and productivity.  Can´t wait for this to be implemented. 

 

Walt
Participant

Absolutely need. We migrated from Highrise (which had it) and now feeling some regret. This is a MUST

Walt
Participant

Case in point - I was able to search this database of ideas for "search notes" and vote on it, rather than create a separate thread.

Hubspot - can you offer ETA for implementation? It is marked as Beta already.

DigitalMemory
Participant

Gobsmacked that the ability to search the Notes is not in place. A basic spreadsheet has this ability. The contacts section in my iPhone can do this. I need a CRM to do what I can't - & I can't remember all the details about each client.

 

I don't remember client names easily, but I can usually recall something about the client. Thati's information that I would write in the Notes. I'm sure it is essential for most CRM users.

 

The speed of Hubspot is impressive, but if it doesn't have the functionality to search within all the data it stores it is like a library book returned to the wrong shelf. It is there but where?

 

I thought I had a work around by exporting contacts to a spreadsheet.  Worringly, the Notes section did not export!  (NB: I am a new user so there may be a way to do this that I have not found).

parijs
Member

Agreed this is basic CRM functionality that is direly needed. 

 

Ideally it would be possible to do a keyword search accross all activity of all contacts and deals, and return the matching contacts or deals with the activity and keyword highlighted. Ideally this would also work together with the existing filtering option so I can choose to only search within contacts in a specific region, list, etc.

pfreedma
Member

Does anyone know if a feature to be able to do a search across Notes and other open text fields in HubSpot is on the roadmap or not, or if there is a third party application taht will enable it? Sorry if it's already mentioned, I haven't read through all the notes in this thread.

Nicola353
Member

As far as I'm aware, no. 

It's the main reason I don't recommend Hubspot to my clients.

 

Why on earth this isn't sorted out I do not know.........

pfreedma
Member

HubSpot Support tells me the feature to search notes is currently in Beta, but no timeframe for release provided.