# Record user searches **URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/record-user-searches/35214 **Category:** Ask for Help **Created:** [November 29, 2021, 5:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/record-user-searches/35214 "2021-11-29T05:02:26Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh) #### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 9:50am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/record-user-searches/35214/7 "2021-11-29T09:50:24Z")
It’s basically the two paragraphs I described above, or you can read the reply linked below and scrape tep 2 & step 3 if that’s not applicable for your use case. > [@Show Search Results when few characters entered](https://community.glideapps.com/t/show-search-results-when-few-characters-entered/35120/6): > > Ah, so only when it’s 3 characters or more will the search result show? I think you can follow the steps below: 1/Add a text entry writing to a user-specific column to serve as your search field. 2/Add a plugin to calculate the length of that term. 3/Add an If Then Else column, if length \> 2 then returns the search term, else leave it empty. 4/In your table that you want to search, create a single value column and cast that ITE column above to all rows. 5/Add a final If Then Else column. I… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/record-user-searches/35214)._