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If you add in all of your Table views to a single Dashboard view, then you can search through all of them at once. I often do this as a Menu view called “Search All”.
Hi @Marc_Dillon ! Great idea. I’m sure it works well in a variety of contexts but I just tried it in an app with thousands of records in different tables and, in a case like that, it seems to be prohibitively expensive. I couldn’t even get it to run properly in my browser. My app became extremely slow. I wonder if the number of records in the apps in which you have implemented this is in the hundreds rather than thousands.
It's been a while since I read this. I just came across it again in trying to help someone else and (having forgotten that I had tried to implement it once) gave @Marc_Dillon 's strategy another try. Now, it works quite well for me. In my weakest device (iPhone 6), it's a bit sluggish now but I have more data than I did before and it works reasonably well. On my other devices (iPhone X and a fairly weak Android device) it seems fine now. I'm not sure if there was a problem with my implementation before or if there's been some sort of improvement in the platform or what, but this seems to be a good approach. The only problem is that filters are not available, even though the table structures are the same: https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/AppSheet-Q-A/Make-search-icon-to-search-in-all-files-not-the...
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