Title: Search Option
Last modified: June 22, 2017

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# Search Option

 *  Resolved [ryanneace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanneace/)
 * (@ryanneace)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-opton/)
 * I can no longer find a way to search the database. There used to be a small magnifying
   glass at the bottom which yielded a search when clicked. Help?

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 *  Plugin Author [bgermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgermann/)
 * (@bgermann)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-opton/#post-9253645)
 * That function was intentionally deleted for security reasons.
 *  Thread Starter [ryanneace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanneace/)
 * (@ryanneace)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-opton/#post-9253668)
 * Ok. I’m guessing it went away with the download feature. But if you can’t search
   the database and you can’t download from the database, it would seem to greatly
   reduce the functionality of this plugin. I’m not trying to be a butt-face, I 
   have been using this plugin for years! I’m just saying…I can’t get my data except
   to manually pull it by combing through the index every time. Is there a different
   way to access info?
 *  Plugin Author [bgermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgermann/)
 * (@bgermann)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-opton/#post-9253804)
 * I do not have the time to maintain the database feature to keep it secure. A 
   different approach would be using CFDB plugin. As CFDB has all the features that
   the cformsII database has had, I decided to send users there to get a better 
   experience.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by [bgermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgermann/).
 *  Thread Starter [ryanneace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanneace/)
 * (@ryanneace)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-opton/#post-9253811)
 * I totally understand. I’ve downloaded that but seem to be a bit at a loss as 
   to how it can be used to download the cforms stuff. A tutorial would be spectacular
   as I suspect this question will continue to come up. I’ve got the CFDB plugin
   installed. What do I do now? Sorry to have to ask this!
 *  Plugin Author [bgermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgermann/)
 * (@bgermann)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-opton/#post-9253824)
 * See the other thread where you posted.

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 * [search option](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/search-option/)

 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [bgermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgermann/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-opton/#post-9253804)
 * Status: resolved