Database search

Read how database search works in My Task Helper. Remember that the same will affect your integrated database widget. Enjoy searchable databases for Free!

Shortly - you can add more and more parameters, further narrowing your search down. This is useful if you have hundreds, even thousands of records.

Searchable students' database

We will show how search works using students' database. Here is how a student form looks like.

After filling it with a few students we are ready to search through the students' database.

The initial search form asks you to specify your search.

You have columns and conditions filters here.

Message at the right side tells you to enter a search keyword, because you can't search using blank string. Notice this useful text with the yellow background. It always shows you current search options in a well readable format.

Once you starte entering some search keyword a smart search helper tries to read your search.

You can choose any column to search by. For example, let's choose Name. Our search helper asks you to enter a search keyword. Sure...

And we will find all records which contain a. Very easy, isn't it?

Let's expand all search filters. You can see that search conditions for Age are different from those that are for string. Let's list all available conditions for different field types here. String, Text, File, Image : is, is not, is empty, is not empty, starts with, ends with, like, contains, not contain. Date, Date and Time, Birthday: is, is not, is empty, is not empty, before, after, between. Number (both Integer and Decimal) : is, is not, is empty, is not empty, less than, greater than, less or equal to, greater or equal to, between For Drop Down, Radio Button, Check box, States, Language, Country, Time Zone controls you will be able to select choices which are added as default values in the Form Builder. Also we will improve search filters for File and Image fields to include file size and extensions. It will be done along with other tasks for improving files functionality in MTH such as: uploading multiple files or images, size and file type validations, file link in email notifications.

Remember that it will be the same for any HTML Form.

Back to our students' database search. We will specify more search parameters. We will add the age range, from 20 to 30 years old only.

Join conditions and and or is another unique feature which allows you to build amazing search queries. You can combine them as you wish, there is no restrictions or limitations. We believe that possibilities which we give you in our search is good enough for any searchable database.

Finally we can get such a cool search. Our smart search helper reads it as Find records with the name which contains 'a' or the age between 20 and 30 and sex is Male or car is Ford

Search result can always be saved to View.

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10.01.2010 Igor Petrushenko