[DONE] Search records action with empty filter returns all records

🔧 Bugs & Issues
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When my automation searches for records in a contacts app by a name field but provides no filter value while being executed, all contacts are returned. I assumed that no contact is found or at least an error is thrown? Returning all records of the app makes no sense to me

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Hey B_Wat,

Thanks a lot for pointing this out to us.
Currently, when using the „search for records“ action with a filter that specifies no search value, the filter is ignored in the search. This means, if this is the only filter inside the „search for records“ action, all records are returned without any search criterion.

This is indeed confusing and can lead to unwanted behavior. I will look for a solution to this problem and provide you with updates.

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@B_Wat we just deployed a fix for this. We now throw an Exception upon searching for records without a valid search value. We figured out that returning no result at all wouldn’t be the correct behavior either.
Thanks for reporting this :slight_smile:

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@Felix - I think searching for a record without a value should return no results and continue to work.

Example:

  • Automation works on many records - an Link ID is either there or not
  • Link ID will be used to search in another database and if found links to the record

Expected result:

  • find no, one or many results when there is a provided value to search for,
  • find no results, when there is no provided value to search for,

Currently it breaks the flow, but it shouldn’t I copy several fields from one database to another.
How should I check first for each(!) field value, if its there or not, when using a search field?