# Can the data explorer search input be converted to lower case?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-the-data-explorer-search-input-be-converted-to-lower-case/323435
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** data-explorer
**Created:** [August 26, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-the-data-explorer-search-input-be-converted-to-lower-case/323435 "2024-08-26T17:36:17Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-the-data-explorer-search-input-be-converted-to-lower-case/323435/1 "2024-08-26T17:36:17Z")

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I sometimes have problems searching for table items in the [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) search.  
The problem is my tablet inserts a capital letter at the beginning of the text field by default, but the search cannot handle that.

 ![Data Explorer interface with search for 'Category' without results](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/1/e/b1e5183a96a1ad170781bebed0d598ea6171a4fd.jpeg)

Is it possible to convert my search input to lowercase, so that I won’t stumble over capital letters anymore?

Another option would be to change the input field so that my tablet doesn’t try to capitalize the first letter.

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-the-data-explorer-search-input-be-converted-to-lower-case/323435/2 "2024-08-26T21:30:07Z")

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If you’re talking about your tablet forcing upper case on stuff like `category_id` or `topics`, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. If you mean for things that you’re searching for, then probably so.

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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-the-data-explorer-search-input-be-converted-to-lower-case/323435/3 "2024-08-26T22:22:11Z")

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heh, this is exactly why I have capitalization disabled for like everything on all devices 😁

 ![This is an app icon with the text "Auto-Capitalization" in white letters against a dark background. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/9/9/6990f6f607c65c4dcefdc9fd85aee697c91cefc0.jpeg)

I usually just let the bot do the grammer thing later if / when I need it. 😉

i want a forced-lowercase setting called “auto-socialization”

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2024, 5:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-the-data-explorer-search-input-be-converted-to-lower-case/323435/4 "2024-08-29T05:48:22Z")

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Regardless, casing really should not matter. The fact it is case sensitive is a bug. We should always lower case it and then search.

 ![The image is a screenshot of a webpage with a search bar and a search result page. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/f/9/6f91ce029f6341648562582f75164aad973d4dd8.png)

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### Author: ![Lhc\_fl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lhc_fl/32/268115_2.png) [@Lhc\_fl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lhc_fl)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-the-data-explorer-search-input-be-converted-to-lower-case/323435/7 "2024-09-02T04:03:53Z")

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@Moin Thanks for your catch!

Will be added in

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-data-explorer/pull/325](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-data-explorer/pull/325)

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### Author: ![Lhc\_fl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lhc_fl/32/268115_2.png) [@Lhc\_fl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lhc_fl)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-the-data-explorer-search-input-be-converted-to-lower-case/323435/8 "2024-09-05T04:03:54Z")

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