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title: "Forms: Additional option to filter select lists"
slug: "news-713-forms-option-filtering-select-lists"
description: "Prefix-only Search in DocuWare Forms improves dropdown fields based on select lists by returning only entries that start with your query—perfect when wildcard search misses, especially for numeric values."
updated: 2025-10-15T15:33:33Z
published: 2025-10-15T15:33:33Z
canonical: "knowledgecenter.docuware.com/news-713-forms-option-filtering-select-lists"
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# Forms: Additional option to filter select lists

Forms introduces the **Prefix-only Search** option for dropdown fields based on select lists. This feature is to enhance the usability where wildcard search, introduced with version 7.12 for dropdowns, does not offer intended results, e.g. with number-oriented entries.

Application

- A user wants to search for example for a value that starts with 6 and enters therefor “6” in the dropdown field. With the wildcard search from version 7.12, the select list offers all entries containing a 6. With the new **Prefix-only Search** option, the select list only shows the entries starting with 6.

Benefits

- Allows users to filter values exclusively based on their prefix
- Provides a more efficient search mechanism for numerical data

Here's how

Enable the **Prefix-only search** option in the settings for dropdown fields that are based on a selection list.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/0108e24e-b3e8-446c-b670-66b1d2a9e861/Images/Documentation/Forms%20Option%20EN.png)

## Supported versions: DocuWare Cloud + 7.15 + 7.14 + 7.13