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Is there any way to add the home page's search widget on a regular table's form?

  • April 29, 2017
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I like the search widget that we've added on the home page. Even though we have over 60 tables in our app, I find that everyone in our company searches for specific clients almost all of the time. We have a specific alpha code for each client, which is usually the way we search, but it's nice the way you can tie that home page search widget to a particular report and search across any of the fields in the report. I'd really like the same exact functionality while sitting on a client's form.

The typical scenario is that I've just reviewed a client's detailed information on the client form, and now I want to do the same thing for another client I just thought of. It would save several steps if I could just type in a keyword into a field at the top of Client A's form and have it immediately find and load/display Client B on the same screen/form, without having to force the user to click back to the home page and jump through multiple pages. What's the best way to approach this functionality?
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  • Quickbase Alumni
  • April 29, 2017
Are you looking for something beyond the built in search function at the top?

If you are on a table, it will automatically search that table, and you could easily search by the other clients name, and pull up any matches.


My suggestion would be to make a concatenated field of the fields that you typically want to search across. Then make a report with an question to search that concatenated field.


Then put a link to that report on your form.


The alternative is to make an report to search in some field contains, but. That will be a slower search and will give more false hits.

  • Quickbase Alumni
  • May 1, 2017
You could probably use the IOL technique to embed a javascript search on the form, and perhaps even the results within the form. Just an interesting thought I felt compelled to pass along. Check with Dan D. for his thoughts.