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I have the following screen and mapping setup:

• a searchbar and a list ite

  

  

  The

  The query text in the request mapped to the searchbar is: code{"tit":{"$regex":"S", "$options":"i"}}/code

  This shows all titles starting with "S"
  I've read some tutorials but they're a little different. I need the steps to accomplish these:
  ul
  liGive all the titles at start and when the searchbar is empty/li
  liFilter the titles in the list to match the searchbar text as it is typed/li
  liGive all titles that match what is typed in the searchbar anywhere in the title, not only at the beginning of the title/li
  /ul

still awaiting help on this one.

Please add JS code below to the mapping searchbar-where:

prereturn value ? {"name":{"$regex":value, "$options":"i"}} : "";/pre

Perfect. Thanks.
Now, using the same method, I need to do the same in an expanded way to search for names. I have 4 name fields: nm1, nm2, nm3, nm4. I am only displaying nm1 as list items. When a text is typed in the searchbar, I want it to search for that value in all the name fields and display the corresponding name from nm1.

Putting the following code in the Where of the mapping of searchbar of the names page gives syntax error:
codereturn value ?'{"$or":[{"fns":{"$regex":value, "$options":"i"}} : "",{"nm1":{"$regex":value, "$options":"i"}} : "",{"nm2":{"$regex":value, "$options":"i"}} : ""]};/code

1. What is the syntax to filter with the fields?
2. How can I get the names to sort -- just the targeted fns?
3. When testing the REST service, it seems the same syntax that goes in the mapping doesn't work directly in the Where field. Is there an explanation for this?

1) It is an incorrect request. Please read here how to make multiple where clauses: https://devcenter.appery.io/documenta...
So your request shoud be like:
prereturn value ? {"$or":[{"fns":{"$regex":value, "$options":"i"}},{"nm1":{"$regex":value, "$options":"i"}},{"nm2":{"$regex":value, "$options":"i"}}]} : ""; /pre
2) Please use sort parameter for that: https://devcenter.appery.io/documenta...

3) You are right. Please look at the question #1

Beautiful. Thanks. Two more thing:

1. I want the search to be effected as the value of the searchbar changes. Currently, this is not implemented until a button or Enter is clicked.
2. When the app is tested on the phone, the list is not updated to show the searched value, but it shows correctly in the development test. Is this a normal behavior?

1. Please run search service on the keyup event of the search component for that
   1. No, it has to work the same. Please check if there are any errors in the Weinre console. You can learn here: https://devcenter.appery.io/documenta... how to open the console.

Thanks. It works perfectly now.