# 🔎 Glide: Search Box Tips and Tricks

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**Created:** [March 8, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-search-box-tips-and-tricks/23959 "2021-03-08T17:23:37Z")\
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Thanks @Robert_Petitto.

Even if it is not a native Glide function, I share an approach to build ‘Advanced Search’ feature for end-users. Objective being to have different choice components which are **independent** the one from the other

Illustration with a list of projects to search per different criteria  
[https://www.loom.com/share/8848eda6e9dd4b58bebf673d3c15d42f](https://www.loom.com/share/8848eda6e9dd4b58bebf673d3c15d42f)

=\> IN DATA EDITOR: Tab: [Project]

- User email

- Project TYPE

- Project STATUS

- Project VISIBILITY

- User Specific TYPE

- Single Value TYPE

- User Specific STATUS

- Single Value STATUS

- User Specific VISIBILITY

- Single Value VISIBILITY

- Template Origin data: 123 (⚠ no space), set origin columns

- Template USC: 123 (⚠ no space), set USC columns

==\> IN SCREEN:

- 3 choices components
- 1 Inline list filtered with if  
. TP2 empty → user email  
. TP2 = TP1 → user email  
. TP2 included in TP1 → user email  
Else “empty”

NB: for the dynamic “Sort by”, the approach is here.

> [@"Dynamic group-by" inline list](https://community.glideapps.com/t/dynamic-group-by-inline-list/14855/5):
>
> Thanks master! And a new cool thing that I discovered with this technic, is that we can apply it on Charts, to build a dynamic chart with just 1 choice component + 1 chart. Updated simplified approach if the inline list (or graph) data to display are in the same tab than the User Specific data selected via Choice component. OBJECTIVE Display an inline list according to the selection of a choice component (ex. gender) AND grouped by the categories of this selection (ex.woman, man) SOLUTION …

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