SKIP: Allow ranges on text field searches

Question

It seems that currently only Numeric and Date fields allow for searching by range. It would be nice if this option was available for Text fields as well.

https://dbfront.com/searching#advanced

Comments

Understood, but could I ask for examples of what you might want to look for.   Sometimes a wild card search might cover your needs.

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I have to double-check, it was requested by a user for the purposes of listing product codes that start with a certain set of characters. I think the regular string search was including other codes with the same characters in the middle of the string. I didn't know wildcards were supported, that might be all we need.

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For details on using wildcards see: https://dbfront.com/searching#defaultwildcard

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Thanks! I'll pass that along. Feel free to delete this feature request; I think wildcards will suffice instead of ranged searches for our needs.

Answer 1

Although a range search might make sense for some text columns, the nature of text fields is that their content can be extremely varied with patterns that don't always follow a simple sequence.

The existing ability to use wildcards, and if needed, full-text search, is still a good and flexible solution.

For more details on searching text columns see: Custom Text Search

For this reason I am going to skip this feature request. Please comment below if you think of reasons to pursue this further.