# \[Feature\] Create an Advanced Search / Filter

**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-create-an-advanced-search-filter/174885
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [January 7, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-create-an-advanced-search-filter/174885 "2017-01-07T20:41:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![jjrjr1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/jjrjr1/32/10993_2.png) [@jjrjr1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jjrjr1)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-create-an-advanced-search-filter/174885/1 "2017-01-07T20:41:38Z")

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Hi

Would be nice if there were an Advanced Filter/Search function.

A selection screen would be displayed will ALL fields for a media title (Including comments)

The ability to select search on “whole words” or “exact match”.

Blank entries are not used in the search

Anyone with a reasonably large library would surely appreciate this…

What do you think??

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### Author: ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-create-an-advanced-search-filter/174885/2 "2017-01-07T21:32:31Z")

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duplicate feature request

> **[Enhanced Search Capability](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/79795/enhanced-search-capability)**
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> I'd like to see PMS and PlexWeb searching enhanced. Ideally, the following options would be a big improvement over current searching:   Search by Title, Actors, Director, Studio, Show or Everything. I'm envisioning a dropdown in the search bar...

closing

please respect the rules for this subforum

- search first if the request has already been posted before
- only [one feature per post](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/46128/rules-for-this-forum-inc-how-to-vote#top "one feature per post")

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### Author: ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-create-an-advanced-search-filter/174885/3 "2021-01-14T16:24:49Z")

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Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate

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### Author: ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-create-an-advanced-search-filter/174885/4 "2021-06-10T00:44:09Z")

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