# New search step in workflows

**URL:** <https://community.noloco.io/t/new-search-step-in-workflows/441>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** feature-request\
**Created:** [March 25, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/new-search-step-in-workflows/441 "2024-03-25T13:58:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![buildwithjoel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/buildwithjoel/32/1537_2.png) [@buildwithjoel](https://community.noloco.io/u/buildwithjoel)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/new-search-step-in-workflows/441/1 "2024-03-25T13:58:04Z")

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I absolutely love Noloco workflows because they’re native to the platform so they’re much quicker on average than Zapier/Make, but I find that I’m quite limited by the inability to have a search step.

**Feature Request: a new search step in workflows**

- Can pull a single record, or a list of records
- Pulls records based on criteria the user provides (using static conditions from the table being searched, or using dynamic conditions from a record and its fields that were used in a previous step (much like Airtable’s search/find action)
- If a single record is found, can use data from any field from that record
- If multiple records are found, can use list of IDs or UUIDs

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**Author:** ![buildwithjoel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/buildwithjoel/32/1537_2.png) [@buildwithjoel](https://community.noloco.io/u/buildwithjoel)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/new-search-step-in-workflows/441/2 "2024-07-26T17:46:50Z")

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Putting some new activity down here in hopes that others see and resonate with this. Definitely has caused certain automations to have to be built in Airtable/SmartSuite rather than using workflows.

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**Author:** ![buildwithjoel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/buildwithjoel/32/1537_2.png) [@buildwithjoel](https://community.noloco.io/u/buildwithjoel)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/new-search-step-in-workflows/441/3 "2024-12-11T16:43:30Z")

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Hoping to get some traction here… most of my Noloco builds inevitably require backend automation (e.g. Airtable automations) or 3P tools like Make/Zapier to get the find/search step that we need.