Views multi field exposed free-text filter/search I have a view displaying some course listings. I want to enable a free-text search on some of the fields. Some of these fields will be a term-reference type, and some will be text fields.

What's the best way to enable this type of search functionality? I've stumbled upon this: http://drupal.org/project/search_api but wanted someone else's opinion.
You could do that without the help of the search filters. 

On my Drupal instance I have Views 7.x-3.7 there is a filter Global: Combine fields filter (exposed) This lets me add multiple fields and then enables users to search on selected fields using a single filter.