# How to search an entire project for a specific variable or other text **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [December 20, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-search-an-entire-project-for-a-specific-variable-or-other-text/2186131 "2022-12-20T08:33:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![finbarr.mccarthytl32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/96bed5/32.png) [@finbarr.mccarthytl32](https://community.thunkable.com/u/finbarr.mccarthytl32)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-search-an-entire-project-for-a-specific-variable-or-other-text/2186131/1 "2022-12-20T08:33:08Z")
Is there any way to search through a Thunkable project to find specific instances of a variable or a piece of text? It would be very useful when debugging to be able to locate everywhere in a project a variable or text is referred to. ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 8:39am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-search-an-entire-project-for-a-specific-variable-or-other-text/2186131/2 "2022-12-20T08:39:03Z")
No, but I agree this would be very useful. You can do a find (cmd+f on a Mac, ctrl+f on a PC) for any word that appears in a block on a single screen but… Thunkable will not move the screen focus to those words. They will simply be highlighted which is only a little bit helpful. ---
**Author:** ![finbarr.mccarthytl32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/96bed5/32.png) [@finbarr.mccarthytl32](https://community.thunkable.com/u/finbarr.mccarthytl32)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-search-an-entire-project-for-a-specific-variable-or-other-text/2186131/3 "2022-12-21T16:00:52Z")
Thank you @tatiang ctrl+f is fine for doing a text search through blocks on the currently open form. It is time consuming and easy to miss a highlighted value and this won’t detect text in a URL string. It also means having to manually perform the search on each form where text might exist. I was hoping that there was a hidden feature somewhere that would facilitate a search across an entire project. ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-search-an-entire-project-for-a-specific-variable-or-other-text/2186131/4 "2022-12-21T16:05:16Z")
Please consider commenting on this feature request so that the staff knows this is something we customers want: > > > \*\*Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.\*\* > When I need …to search a variable, I use the search tool of the browser. > This tool is able to find how many occurrence of the search items and to highlight them one by one, but if the occurence is not in the visible screen, it doesn't get visible > > \*\*Describe the solution you'd like\*\* > I would like a behaviour that move the block page to show the highlighted occurrence inside the visible portion of the screen. > > \*\*Describe alternatives you've considered\*\* > Altenranitvely there could be an intenal search tool that make the search and point you to the results. > > \*\*Which platform are you asking for?\*\* > Thunkable ✕ (x.thunkable.com) > > \*\*Additional context\*\* > !\[image\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/52273816/205035074-b9954ece-dc9c-4900-a882-2fa0dfffe2b9.png) ---
**Author:** ![finbarr.mccarthytl32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/96bed5/32.png) [@finbarr.mccarthytl32](https://community.thunkable.com/u/finbarr.mccarthytl32)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-search-an-entire-project-for-a-specific-variable-or-other-text/2186131/5 "2022-12-21T17:49:29Z")
Thank you @tatiang - I have commented on this in GitHub. It is an essential feature for apps that have to be ‘debugged’. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-search-an-entire-project-for-a-specific-variable-or-other-text/2186131/6 "2023-03-21T17:49:30Z")
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