Answers.Body: <p>In the advanced search under the "Address Fields" you can choose "Address Location" which defaults to primary only. By selecting all of them you can search by any address type. </p>
  
  <p>I tested searching for a non-primary "personal" address and the results showed the contact.</p>
  
  <p>It might be something that could be made clearer, because I found a similar thread on it <a href="https://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=33034.0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  
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Body: <p>As of now only primary address of a contact is searchable in advanced search. Search is not possible for other addresses of the same contact. So I want the other addresses of contact also searchable. Can I use custom fields for other addresses apart from primary?</p>
  
  <p>What are the problems that can come up because of this approach ? </p>
  
Tags: <custom-fields><search><search-results><addresses><search-builder>
Title: Using custom fields to store secondary addresses
ThreadText: # Using custom fields to store secondary addresses
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-06-15)
  
  As of now only primary address of a contact is searchable in advanced search. Search is not possible for other addresses of the same contact. So I want the other addresses of contact also searchable. Can I use custom fields for other addresses apart from primary?
  
  What are the problems that can come up because of this approach ?
  
  **Tags:** custom-fields, search, search-results, addresses, search-builder
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-06-15. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  In the advanced search under the "Address Fields" you can choose "Address Location" which defaults to primary only. By selecting all of them you can search by any address type.
  
  I tested searching for a non-primary "personal" address and the results showed the contact.
  
  It might be something that could be made clearer, because I found a similar thread on it [here](https://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=33034.0).
  
  
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