# Allow Search box to treat Linked Record fields as Text

**URL:** <https://community.noloco.io/t/allow-search-box-to-treat-linked-record-fields-as-text/2223>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [October 21, 2025, 10:52am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/allow-search-box-to-treat-linked-record-fields-as-text/2223 "2025-10-21T10:52:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Russ](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/russ/32/604_2.png) [@Russ](https://community.noloco.io/u/Russ)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 10:52am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/allow-search-box-to-treat-linked-record-fields-as-text/2223/1 "2025-10-21T10:52:43Z")

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Had a few users tell me that the search was broken on some new pages I’d created.

Turns out that the Search box doesn’t treat the title of a linked record as part of the searchable text (even though they both expected it to).

Any way we can update the behaviour here?

1 record example in table

 ![Screenshot 2025-10-21 at 11.51.39](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/noloco/original/2X/4/411caf4a53981dcc46e6b3e07b71c5305e8eaa49.png)

After searching

 ![Screenshot 2025-10-21 at 11.51.46](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/noloco/original/2X/1/1c2ffe4a86960e06b5874cdff9ce6286def61e0c.png)
