Title: Searching within admin panel
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Searching within admin panel

 *  Resolved [traumm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/traumm/)
 * (@traumm)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searching-within-admin-panel/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’m using CFDB and purchased the editor yesterday too.
 * Is there any way of searching through entries when logged in to the admin panel?
 * The search box there only filters the 100 records on screen at that point – I
   have thousands of entries I need to search through, and then edit. I was under
   the impression there was a search function that would search all CFDB entries.
 * Many thanks in advance for your help.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Michael Simpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msimpson/)
 * (@msimpson)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searching-within-admin-panel/#post-7241216)
 * The options you have:
 * – Increase the #of records shown in the administration view (in CFDB Options 
   admin page)
 * – Create your own page with a [search form](http://cfdbplugin.com/?page_id=680)
   so the searching happens on the server side.
 *  Thread Starter [traumm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/traumm/)
 * (@traumm)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searching-within-admin-panel/#post-7241235)
 * Thanks for the response.
 * If I go for the second option – creating my own page with a search form – would
   this be editable? (as the admin panel is, with the editor plugin)
 *  Plugin Author [Michael Simpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msimpson/)
 * (@msimpson)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searching-within-admin-panel/#post-7241273)
 * It would be if you use the [cfdb-datatable **edit=”true”** form=”form-name”] 
   short code.
 *  Thread Starter [traumm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/traumm/)
 * (@traumm)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searching-within-admin-panel/#post-7241317)
 * This is working great now, thanks!
 * When adding a filter, is there a way of searching two columns with one value 
   from a single search field?
 * I’ve currently got this working, but it would be great if this could also display
   results if the ‘searchvalue’ is present in ‘column1’ or ‘column2’.
 * Working just for ‘column1’ using the following code:
 * `filter="column1~~/.*$_POST(searchvalue).*/i"`
 * Thanks again!
 *  Thread Starter [traumm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/traumm/)
 * (@traumm)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searching-within-admin-panel/#post-7241321)
 * Should’ve tested this more thoroughly before asking the last question – got this
   working using a simple OR || operator, like so:
 * `filter="column1~~/.*$_POST(searchvalue).*/i||column2~~/.*$_POST(searchvalue).*/
   i"`
 * All great – thanks again for your help Michael – a really handy plugin!

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searching-within-admin-panel/#post-7241321)
 * Status: resolved