This was a new "feature" when using the search-box at the top of a report that QuickBase came out with last year sometime to help improve performance of QuickBase. By only searching visible fields; there were fewer fields to search. This meant however that you had to have those fields in your report. Mark Shnier came up with a formula-text technique that would allow QuickBase to see the content of many different fields, but the data in the formula would not be "displayed" - and you would be able to use that column in your report to essentially create a searchable field across many different fields in a single record. See this post for the details:
https://quickbase-community.intuit.co...