Hello,
This is my first post on here, as I am new to the drupal scene.
I am creating a website using drupal 7 for a product. Users will register an account on the site, then register thier product on the website. They will input the serial number, color, model, and other things into the product registration page, and essentially create a node containing data about their product.
The problem I am having is that I want a registered user to be able to search the database of nodes by the serial number field (only) and find results for that machine. I have not had any problems creating the new content type or anything of that nature, but the problem is that somone can run a search such as "blue" and get a list of every single blue item registered, along with the serial number and contact information for that owner of every item that is blue! This is bad news, as we only want them to be able to search by an exact serial number (no partial matches). the problem is that the search "blue" is an exact match for the color (blue) field for every single blue product registered. For security reasons, I don't want a user gaining the contact information of every person who registered a blue product by making a simple search, such as "blue" or "green".