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# Clear the Search Box Before Trusting Advanced Filters on Recurring Plans

> Why leftover text in the Recurring Plans table search box can make Advanced Filters return 0 or incomplete results, and how to fix it.

## Overview

The **Recurring Plans** table (Payments > Recurring Plans) in your WeGive
dashboard supports two different ways to narrow down results: the plain
**search box** and **Advanced Filters**. These two tools don't combine the
way you'd expect. If you leave text in the search box and then apply an
Advanced Filter — for example, filtering to Status = Missing, or Paused
Until / Paused Type = Indefinite — you can end up with **0 results, or far
fewer results than actually exist**, even though matching records are
genuinely in your account.

## Why this happens

Once there's any text in the search box, the table switches from its
normal sorted/paginated view to a **search-ranked result set capped at
200 records**. Your Advanced Filters are then applied only to those first
200 search matches — not to your whole account. If the specific records
you're trying to find (e.g. plans with a Missing status, or ones paused
indefinitely) don't happen to fall within that first 200, the filter has
nothing to work with and shows "no data," even though the records exist.

This is different from the table simply "not finding" something — the
search box changes how results are selected *before* your filters ever
run.

## How to avoid it

* **Clear the search box completely before applying an Advanced
  Filter.** If you only want to filter (by status, pause state, amount,
  date, etc.) and aren't trying to find a specific donor or keyword,
  leave the search box empty and use Advanced Filters on their own —
  they'll run against your entire set of recurring plans with no cap.
* **If you need both a keyword search and a filter**, apply the filter
  first and check whether your keyword is truly necessary — a broad
  keyword search is more likely to push the record you want outside the
  200-result cap.
* **If a saved or shared link to a filtered Recurring Plans view returns
  unexpectedly few or no results**, check whether that link also has
  leftover search text saved in it. Re-open the table, clear the search
  box, and reapply just the filter.

## Practical implication

Treat the search box and Advanced Filters as two different tools for two
different jobs: search for finding a specific record by name or keyword,
Advanced Filters for narrowing down the full data set by attributes like
status or date. Combining them is supported, but the search box's
200-result cap means a filter layered on top of an active search term can
silently hide records that would otherwise show up — always clear the
search box first if what you actually need is a complete, filtered view.


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