# Airtable Find row number based on text input

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/airtable-find-row-number-based-on-text-input/60940
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [December 16, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/airtable-find-row-number-based-on-text-input/60940 "2018-12-16T22:15:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Navneet\_Singhal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/navneet_singhal/32/27994_2.png) [@Navneet\_Singhal](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Navneet_Singhal)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/airtable-find-row-number-based-on-text-input/60940/1 "2018-12-16T22:15:13Z")

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[https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5c0221f3b5f0362dad71e3a1](https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5c0221f3b5f0362dad71e3a1)

Once a user is registered i want to check if his name is already in database but i can give column name only, i dont know how to find the name in database airtable and fetch row number.

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### Author: ![Navneet\_Singhal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/navneet_singhal/32/27994_2.png) [@Navneet\_Singhal](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Navneet_Singhal)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 11:04am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/airtable-find-row-number-based-on-text-input/60940/2 "2019-01-09T11:04:01Z")

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### Author: ![overshield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19b73/32.png) [@overshield](https://community.thunkable.com/u/overshield)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/airtable-find-row-number-based-on-text-input/60940/3 "2020-02-12T19:43:36Z")

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Under the ‘then do’ you have set PasswordIndex to \> in list ‘value’… where did you get that ‘value’ block?  
You have to pull that from available blocks somewhere but I don’t see it.

Thanks

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### Author: ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/airtable-find-row-number-based-on-text-input/60940/4 "2020-02-12T20:54:35Z")

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That’s an incorrect block usage. It should be column, not value.

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### Author: ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/airtable-find-row-number-based-on-text-input/60940/5 "2020-02-12T20:55:37Z")

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[See here](http://community.thunkable.com/t/create-list-with-airtable-data/456166/11) @overshield

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### Author: ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 11:41am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/airtable-find-row-number-based-on-text-input/60940/6 "2024-11-08T11:41:02Z")

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