Want to develop search form

hi everybody!
another problem was coming over me...
I want to develop a search form like a normal search site in internet, which search for an entered character in much tables in my database.
after the search want to display my results in a report style.
How does it works or where can i find example apps where i'm able to see the functionallity of such search apps????
thanks to everybody who writes back!!!! :)

Thomas,
That's a very interesting problem you have!
Let me understand what your requirements are:- you want to have a field where the user enters in a string value, and then presses the 'Search' button, and you want the form to search through several tables and find records where a certain column in these tables has this string value in it.
Am I right? If so, then try this...
Lets say you have five tables, A, B, C, D, E, and they all have a column called COL1, and you to search this column.
Create a view called, lets cay VIEW1 as
CREATE VIEW VIEW1 AS
SELECT COL1 FROM A
UNION
SELECT COL1 FROM B
UNION
SELECT COL1 FROM C
UNION
SELECT COL1 FROM D
UNION
SELECT COL1 FROM E;
Create a block (call it C1) with your 'search' field (with the 'search')and a button. Create a second multiple row block called BLK_VIEW1, and make sure this block has a base table of VIEW1. In the 'default where' clause of this block, say something like 'where col1 like :C1.search'.
In the When-button-presses trigger go to the BLK_VIEW1 block and do an 'execute quuery'.
This should display all the rows that match the user entered search criteria.
Hope that helps.
Harry
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