How to add new fields to find duplicates in SuiteCRM import module?

Question

PHP

Hello, there was a problem with the task of adding new fields to the duplicate search page when importing into SuiteCRM. There is a built-in mechanism for searching for duplicates, you need to add the fields by which the search will be performed. By default, there is a first name, last name, full name, but they are not enough. It is not entirely clear on what basis it picks up these indexes from the database, as well as how to add new ones there. Tell me in which files you need to describe such indexes, or maybe there is a simpler solution.

PS Strongly newbie, I apologize if I expressed it unclearly. I've been dumbing down in php for three days, and all that was enough for me so far was to determine that it picks up these fields from modules by "name".

Answer 1

I managed to solve the problem by adding a new index and binding the required column to it (in my case, through DBeaver), and setting the label of this field in language. I just need to see if ImportDuplicateCheck has a mechanism for picking up indexes of custom fields, I don’t know in which version it was added.