Custom object search in Salesforce Lightning

Question

To create child record, I use e.force:createRecord but when I type the name of parent record into look-up field, it shows nothing even whole name or some letter.

I want to have the functionality as standard object like contact:

Do I need to config somewhere?

Answer 1

I believe Lightning shows only recently accessed records.

To have more flexibility you might need to create a completely custom component which would include custom lookup.

For my case I used custom components with custom lookup with similar approaches to this post or this one