# Looking for an old documentation page about search() function

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/looking-for-an-old-documentation-page-about-search-function/20594>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 25, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/looking-for-an-old-documentation-page-about-search-function/20594 "2019-06-25T12:26:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![yanokwa](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/yanokwa/32/1695_2.png) [@yanokwa](https://forum.getodk.org/u/yanokwa)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/looking-for-an-old-documentation-page-about-search-function/20594/4 "2019-06-26T16:25:52Z")

</div>

[http://web.archive.org/web/20170710045637/https://opendatakit.org/help/form-design/data-preloading](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](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.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.getodk.org/t/looking-for-an-old-documentation-page-about-search-function/20594)._