SOSL Operation Limitations

EntityDefinition and FieldDefinition

EntityDefinition and FieldDefinition support the following SOSL operations:

FIND

• Literal text search, for example:
  1FIND {account}

• Text search with a single wildcard, for example:
  1FIND {account*} RETURNING EntityDefinition
  2FIND {account?} RETURNING FieldDefinition
  3FIND {account*fax} RETURNING EntityDefintion
  4FIND {account?fax} RETURNING FieldDefinition

  The wildcard can’t be the first character in a search term, consistent with search behavior for all objects.
• Quotation marks are supported.
• The escape character \ (slash) is supported. For example, to search for the character * (asterisk), include the escape character:
  1FIND {account\*}
  2RETURNING EntityDefinition

  .
• RETURNING is required.
  1FIND {MyString} 
  2RETURNING FieldDefinition

  • Multiple object type names are supported.
    1...RETURNING EntityDefinition, FieldDefinition

  • A field list is supported.
    1... RETURNING EntityDefinition (MasterLabel, QualifiedApiName)

  • WHERE is supported, though logical operators are not.
  • LIMIT is supported.

Example

1FIND {account*} 
2RETURNING FieldDefinition (MasterLabel, NamespacePrefix 
3WHERE EntityDefinitionId='Account')

ExternalString

ExternalString doesn’t support SOSL searches.

MetadataComponentDependency (Beta)

MetadataComponentDependency is a virtual entity, so it doesn’t support SOSL searches.