Is the built-in search function for the data-tab interface working as folks would expect?
I’m really surprised that the search function can’t perform sub-string searches.
If I have a list of users and their email addresses like this…
And I search my database for “@gmail.com” using the built-in search field, why doesn’t it return the users with gmail.com addresses? It only seems to perform exact matches?
Am I missing something or is bubble’s data tab very underwhelming?
Thanks,
Allen
Hi there, @allenboening… the data tab/search may or may not be underwhelming depending on your definition of the term, but you can do what you described by creating a new view of the User data type. Click the pencil icon beside the data type name, and add a constraint to the view where the email contains gmail.com.
Hope this helps.
Best…
Mike
Thanks Mike for the reply!
I am aware of this approach, but in my opinion, the search field really ought to do this on its own, and not require me to spin up multiple views of the data type simply to query the data. This will require me to create a ton of different views - I used a simple example above, but the reality is that I want to be able to query the data adhoc and needing to create a new view each time is simply not a scalable solution.
The fact that the search feature only works for exact matches is a pretty big gap in my mind. Searching a database should not be so rigid.
