Get particular row information via particular text from airtable column

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You will need to apply a technique rather than a specific function or block.

When you get the records in the green block, it starts with records, then there is a list of objects which represents the rows in the table and each object start with a property called id. This property has the record unique number to refer to it later.

So you will need to create another list and add the id to that list whenever you add a record in your list that you show to the user.
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The main block includes to fill up both lists

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When selecting any item from the List Viewer you will need to use the green block index to get the row ID.

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Hope that makes it clear.

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Its Very clear and it worked…

Thank you so much for your patience and detailed explanation as always.

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Hello. I don’t think there is my solution at the top. Maybe I did not say it clear enough.
Suppose we have such a column

PROFESSIONS
aerospace engineer
construction engineer
mechanical engineer
naval engineer
mechanical
construction worker
mechanical metal worker

and I want to extract the records which contain mechanical. How should I set up filterbyformula?

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I’m glad you found it helpful.

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The filterByFormula runs exact search and therefore you get back only what exactly matching the text you provide.

You can try the FIND method in the filterByFormula to achieve what you want.

Try something like this: filterByFormula=(FIND("mechanical",{PROFESSIONS}))

You might need to adjust the text to be acceptable to Airtable expected format to have it working.

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Thanks muneer, I’ll try later and update you

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thanks muneer, it works great. Perfect syntax!

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I’m glad it worked for you.

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