A discussion about improving the Data Explorer search input has been initiated by Moin, who faces issues due to their tablet’s default capitalization. They suggest converting search input to lowercase to handle this problem. pfaffman acknowledges the issue but thinks it’s only solvable for user-input searches, not auto-generated ones. Lilly jokes about disabling auto-capitalization on all their devices and proposes a “forced-lowercase” setting. sam argues that case sensitivity is a bug and that input should be converted to lowercase for searches. The issue has been addressed, with Lhc_fl thanking Moin for pointing it out and announcing a fix in the GitHub pull request.
I sometimes have problems searching for table items in the Data Explorer 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.
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.
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.
heh, this is exactly why I have capitalization disabled for like everything on all devices 
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”
Regardless, casing really should not matter. The fact it is case sensitive is a bug. We should always lower case it and then search.
@Moin Thanks for your catch!
Will be added in
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-data-explorer/pull/325
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