Multiple search

[victorycck]

Thanks for your response.

Actually, I visualise a program that searches out an item then if I want to search for something extra from the results I got, I click on a button that creates another textbox that is to be used to search for the next item I want to search from within the results of the first search. The creation of the textboxes should not exceed the number of fields in the table

Hi victory,

Sorry for missing your post. I thought I responded to it a while ago, but I guess it didn't take!?

At the moment, searching-within-searches as you described isn't possible. I originally thought of including this functionality in an early release of FT2 but decided that it would be better suited to a module.

I also wonder whether there is anywhere in this program a place where one can configure more than one search field to the specific data one is looking for. How is done?

I don't quite follow you on this one... the default search value dropdown lets you search all fields. Or do you mean you'd like to search both First Name and Last Name fields (and only those fields) for string X? Again, this isn't doable yet. It sounds like you may want to look into View filters: that allows similar functionality. You could create multiple Views with filters which would act like "hardcoded search queries" - they could initially limit the results to a subset of the data, which could then be searched within. See here for more info:
http://docs.formtools.org/userdoc/?page=view_filters

There are actually a number of improvements I plan on making to the search feature, so I appreciate your feedback here. How would you like the functionality to be improved? (be specific, if you can!)

One improvement I *do* plan on making in a upcoming release is adding a "searchable" column on the Edit View -> Fields tab. This would let you define which fields should show up in the search dropdown. Right now it always displays all fields in the View, which doesn't always make sense and can sometimes add a bit of unnecessary clutter to the dropdown - depending on your data set, some fields never need to be searched on.

- Ben