# Search Bar. Is this supposed to happen?

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/search-bar-is-this-supposed-to-happen/79891>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [February 7, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/search-bar-is-this-supposed-to-happen/79891 "2025-02-07T17:02:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michelle\_Pointer1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/michelle_pointer1/32/83637_2.png) [@Michelle\_Pointer1](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Michelle_Pointer1)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/search-bar-is-this-supposed-to-happen/79891/1 "2025-02-07T17:02:29Z")

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Can someone tell me if this is supposed to happen?

I have a card collection setup with the services sold grouped by customer name.

I have a in-app filter set to allow the sales rep to filter data by service type so they can see all customers they have sold a particular service.

I enabled the search bar thinking that would help them find a particular customer in because that is the biggest longest list of data we have. It seems the filter limits the search feature to only values in the filter.

I guess I’m not sure why the two are connected. Can someone explain to me how that works or if this is a glitch?

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/search-bar-is-this-supposed-to-happen/79891/2 "2025-02-07T17:35:50Z")

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I guess to me it’s normal that they are connected. If I filtered my list, I would want the search to only look at the filtered rows instead of all rows. Unless I’m misunderstanding the question.

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**Author:** ![Michelle\_Pointer1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/michelle_pointer1/32/83637_2.png) [@Michelle\_Pointer1](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Michelle_Pointer1)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/search-bar-is-this-supposed-to-happen/79891/3 "2025-02-07T17:54:19Z")

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I guess to me, they appear to be separate functions based on how they are presented to me in the Glide builder so I did not expect them to be connected.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/2/a/2acd2e07165ea4535a3a54999eec4fcb7431ad09.png)

I assumed (obviously wrongly so) that a search would allow them to search any data in that component while the filter would allow them to easily choose to filter the data by only the service type. I realize they can do a search of the words in and get essentially the same result so I will disable the filter.

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**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:** [February 8, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/search-bar-is-this-supposed-to-happen/79891/5 "2025-02-08T01:48:38Z")

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They are separate functions to enable because sometimes you might not want just one, not the other.

I do expect them to be connected like Jeff said.