Hello Patrick,

This is a good place to discuss this feature, but your should raise it as an official Feature Request so people can vote on it and I can judge it's popularity. Basically I review all the features and their number of votes when I work on that module next and I weigh up the cost/time/benefit of each feature (so small, popular, useful changes are more likely to make it in). If it is a specific change that might only affect your scenario then you may want to consider a Sponsored Enhancement as I do these as top priority (I have to agree to the change first if it is going into the core product line though).

This could be a useful add-on to allow other modules to search on the data. An Advanced Search has been on my list for a long time now....