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Maurizio_polver
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

Hi there, i'm having issues with letters' case in my filterByFormula text and API call.

I'm trying to do a searching box where user can give an input of what they are looking for, and Airtable fetches from a big database.

 

Right now if i'm looking for "Hilfinger" it actually works alright and returns a few records, but if I type "hilfinger" it won't find anything.

Here is my API call, i hope you can help:

https://api.airtable.com/v0/appk7bV1OTtj*****/Offerte?filterByFormula=SEARCH(%22TEXT+HERE%22%2C+%7BNome+Oggetto%7D)&sort%5B0%5D%5Bfield%5D=Identificativo&sort%5B0%5D%5Bdirection%5D=desc

What would be ideal to happen is that Airtable gets the records even if cases are lower of uppercase.

Thank you very much, any help would be much appreciated

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TheTimeSavingCo
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

Try wrapping both your user input and your field value inside a "LOWER()":

https://api.airtable.com/v0/appk7bV1OTtj*****/Offerte?filterByFormula=SEARCH(LOWER(%22TEXT+HERE%22)%2C+LOWER(%7BNome+Oggetto%7D))&sort%5B0%5D%5Bfield%5D=Identificativo&sort%5B0%5D%5Bdirection%5D=desc

 

 

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Airtable offers a LOWER() function and an UPPER() function, which forces text to either all lowercase or all uppercase.

You can learn more about Airtable’s formula functions on this page: https://support.airtable.com//docs/formula-field-reference

p.s. If your company has a budget for your project and you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with any of this, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld 

TheTimeSavingCo
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

Try wrapping both your user input and your field value inside a "LOWER()":

https://api.airtable.com/v0/appk7bV1OTtj*****/Offerte?filterByFormula=SEARCH(LOWER(%22TEXT+HERE%22)%2C+LOWER(%7BNome+Oggetto%7D))&sort%5B0%5D%5Bfield%5D=Identificativo&sort%5B0%5D%5Bdirection%5D=desc

 

 

That's perfect, thank you.

For future references, i just add to add another ")" to your code, but that was great