Search within page on this community

[Kirk_Masden]

This post pertains to an earlier discussion about the difficulty of searching within individual pages on this community:

Community search 2 Questions

@Mike_Rundell posted about a search problem with the heading “Community search” a while back: I also have some search-related issues that I’d like to raise but, as they are different from Mike’s, I’m starting a separate thread. First, on both of the browsers I use, I am unable to use the “Search within page” function on this forum. When I attempt to do so, I wind up searching the entire community again. Am I missing something or is this a problem that others have experienced? Another prob…

Today, I noticed the problem again and also happened upon a solution – at least on a Mac – not sure about other platforms.

On my Mac (Chrome or Safari), I found today that command-F took me to the search function for the entire community instead of the “search within page” function. Then, however, I noticed that I could access the search within page function by holding down the command key and hitting the F key twice in quick succession.

Please let me know if it works on PCs (control-F).

By the way, please be aware that there is a stand-alone app for the community:

AppSheet Community - Standalone Chrome App Tips & Tricks 💡

Quick tip for community regulars: if you’re using Chrome, you can ‘install’ the AppSheet Creator Community to your desktop as a Chrome app, making it easier/quicker to jump in and out of the forum: [31%20AM] [29%20AM]

Personally, however, I prefer an ordinary browser.

[Kirk_Masden]

I just noticed that there are quite few keyboard shortcuts we can use, though the particular kind of trick to bypass the normal search that I described above is not listed.

[Swoopy]

If I understand your requirement, you can search for “expression” in Google using something like,

For Tips & Tricks:

"community" "appsheet" "tips & tricks" "expression"

For Questions:

"community" "appsheet" "questions" "expression"

For Feature Requests:

"community" "appsheet" "feature requests" "expression"

I myself use this old school method and it should be working on every platform.