# Make App Search Tool searchable by Term

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/make-app-search-tool-searchable-by-term/7143>\
**Category:** Idea\
**Created:** [October 20, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/make-app-search-tool-searchable-by-term/7143 "2016-10-20T14:09:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![darylgibson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/darylgibson/32/3603_2.png) [@darylgibson](https://forum.bubble.io/u/darylgibson)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/make-app-search-tool-searchable-by-term/7143/1 "2016-10-20T14:09:21Z")

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The App Search Tool is another great Bubble tool. However, it does not permit searching by term. For example, I want to see all workflows that have the term “9700” in them.

Could this capability be added? It sure would be a time saver…

Thanks

Daryl.

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**Author:** ![emmanuel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/emmanuel/32/27657_2.png) [@emmanuel](https://forum.bubble.io/u/emmanuel)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/make-app-search-tool-searchable-by-term/7143/2 "2016-10-20T16:21:54Z")

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What about the “Contains text” option?

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**Author:** ![darylgibson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/darylgibson/32/3603_2.png) [@darylgibson](https://forum.bubble.io/u/darylgibson)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/make-app-search-tool-searchable-by-term/7143/3 "2016-10-20T20:52:37Z")

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Emmanuel, I am not sure what you are referring to. On the drop down menu of the App Search Tool the choices are as follows:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/2X/f/ff9cb32608f9860bfba855680f78613b20479e65.jpg)

My suggestion is to add a “Term” selection to this dropdown which allows input of text or numbers.

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**Author:** ![emmanuel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/emmanuel/32/27657_2.png) [@emmanuel](https://forum.bubble.io/u/emmanuel)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/make-app-search-tool-searchable-by-term/7143/4 "2016-10-20T21:57:05Z")

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There is one, once you select a type of things to search.

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**Author:** ![darylgibson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/darylgibson/32/3603_2.png) [@darylgibson](https://forum.bubble.io/u/darylgibson)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/make-app-search-tool-searchable-by-term/7143/5 "2016-10-20T22:52:05Z")

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I see it now specifically under the “Element Type.” This is definitely not intuitive and I would think that term based searches are one of the more common performed.

However, now that I know where it is, I can use it.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![emmanuel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/emmanuel/32/27657_2.png) [@emmanuel](https://forum.bubble.io/u/emmanuel)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/make-app-search-tool-searchable-by-term/7143/6 "2016-10-20T22:55:47Z")

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We can’t do a text search without knowing what the search is about…