Table of Contents Setup Filter view Data Viewer Blocks Explaination Project Link

Setup - Filter View Follow the setup in the image below. [Screenshot 2025-09-25 at 11.49.09 AM]

Setup - Data Viewer Add a data viewer and make sure to select ‘Filter View 1’ [Screenshot 2025-09-25 at 11.50.07 AM]

Setup - Blocks First create a variable to hold the following list (‘zz’ is intentional): a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,zz [Screenshot 2025-09-25 at 11.50.59 AM] Then add the following blocks [Screenshot 2025-09-25 at 11.54.28 AM]

Explanation First, when we aren’t searching for anything, we want to let them see everything in the data table. The filter rule below, where we get from a to zzz, grabs everything in the table. [Screenshot 2025-09-25 at 11.57.26 AM] Next is the complicated part. This is when we start searching. I…

Hey @brianl Thank you for sharing this. I really like the idea! While testing it, I ran into an issue with Two-word items, not showing. For example, when I typed part or all of the second word (like “soda”), the search returned nothing. To fix this, I added a loop that goes through the whole lis…

Hm, yeah, it doesn’t work well if you search halfway through the word or the second word. The idea was to try to make it lightweight and as simple as possible. If a complete dynamic search, it would probably lean less on filters and fully on loops. Might try that in the future to see what that migh…

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Setup - Data Viewer
Add a data viewer and make sure to select ‘Filter View 1’

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