Looking for an old documentation page about search() function

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Hi,

This old page does not exist anymore and I can't find information somewhere else about search() options : https://opendatakit.org/help/form-design/data-preloading/
Its content was close to this : https://gist.github.com/yanokwa/a2a03d691ef4cf3d5bee/revisions#diff-b787ab8122b237f0dc42fb8ec33b64e3

Thanks a lot.

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Hi @mathieubossaert

there is another section which contains a sample http://xlsform.org/en/#dynamic-selects-from-pre-loaded-data

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Thanks @Grzesiek2010,
we found this but all the available and great options available are not listed nor explained

  • startswith
  • endswith
  • contains
  • matches

We have it but I think it would be useful to make those options more visible. It helped us a lot in the past (and today during the course)

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http://web.archive.org/web/20170710045637/https://opendatakit.org/help/form-design/data-preloading has all the old content. I've added an issue at https://github.com/XLSForm/xlsform.github.io/issues/166 so we can add the options to the docs.

I think the reason it's not added is because we had been discussing deprecating search() and wanted to limit the number of people currently using it.

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Thank you Yaw. If you plan to deprecate search() do you think there is/will be an alternative ? We use it a lot to limit options in a select_one, from a csv media containing thousands species names (400 000).
Here is a form example tunned by @LN : https://github.com/opendatakit/collect/issues/3132#issuecomment-499222715
User select if he want to point a plant or an animal, type 3 letters, and choose the species he wants in a filtered list.
@Remy_CLEMENT

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External data - current state of affairs has our current progress. The summary is that search() is very popular and we won't remove it without a reasonable and fast alternative.

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