# \[SOLVED\] Need Help with constraints Do search for

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/solved-need-help-with-constraints-do-search-for/1617>\
**Category:** Need help\
**Created:** [February 16, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/solved-need-help-with-constraints-do-search-for/1617 "2016-02-16T18:18:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![AliFarahat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/alifarahat/32/189604_2.png) [@AliFarahat](https://forum.bubble.io/u/AliFarahat)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/solved-need-help-with-constraints-do-search-for/1617/1 "2016-02-16T18:18:45Z")

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Hey guys,

i am really starting to have a problem with this. Aren’t constraints suppose to be constraints, for example i set a constrain on a do search for based on another drop-down value but it still shows the whole list even if the constraint is not meet. Seems to me that its acting more like a filter and not as a constraint.

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So example below where a constraint has been set as in the image above but the drop-down is still populated with everything! even if the constraint is not meet

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**Author:** ![AliFarahat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/alifarahat/32/189604_2.png) [@AliFarahat](https://forum.bubble.io/u/AliFarahat)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/solved-need-help-with-constraints-do-search-for/1617/2 "2016-02-16T18:23:35Z")

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Never mind, next time i will search better before asking answer is below…

> [@"is in" constraint not working as I expected?](http://forum.bubble.io/t/is-in-constraint-not-working-as-i-expected/239):
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> I have a User with a list of other Users who are “friends”. When doing a search, I have a constraint that says another thing’s Created By is in this list. [image] But it doesn’t constrain it, the list is empty but if you put “is in” or “isn’t in” then you get the same results. Thought it might be because it is going from location search \> category, so set up a search straight on category where the Creator is in an empty list on a user. So…I added a User to the list, then deleted i…