# Find / Search Is not Working well in Ignition 8.1.27

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-search-is-not-working-well-in-ignition-8-1-27/77913>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [August 16, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-search-is-not-working-well-in-ignition-8-1-27/77913 "2023-08-16T06:27:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![bhalakumar.s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@bhalakumar.s](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bhalakumar.s)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-search-is-not-working-well-in-ignition-8-1-27/77913/1 "2023-08-16T06:27:42Z")

</div>

We Recently Upgraded Ignition from 8.1.12 to 8.1.27. after the Update, the Find option in the designer is not working properly. Even a straight forward Tag search, Named Query search is not returning any result event after applying correct filters.

Have anyone else faced this same issue? Not sure if its because of faulty Installation during Upgrade or something.

Also there were few Internal tags deleted after upgrade. It seems strange.

Looking for a help and thanks in advance

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-search-is-not-working-well-in-ignition-8-1-27/77913/2 "2023-08-16T10:24:51Z")

</div>

> [@\[BUG\] Find/replace tool silent error](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-find-replace-tool-silent-error/61092/4):
>
> I forgot to come back to this. I solved it eventually by narrowing down the bad view by selecting folders of views and searching using the new contextual find replace tool. Once the find replace tool stopped working, I searched again in smaller selections within that folder and so on until I got to a single view. I had to resave a particular binding in the view and then it fixed it

There's a corrupt binding most likely in one of your (views/windows/templates)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![bhalakumar.s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@bhalakumar.s](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bhalakumar.s)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-search-is-not-working-well-in-ignition-8-1-27/77913/3 "2023-08-16T14:44:31Z")

</div>

Hi @nminchin, As you said it worked!! if we drill down to the particular window and apply search.

But is it not a bug?? What if i am not sure where all it is used and want to search a Component or a tag throughout my project?

I Imported the same project in a different Ignition version(8.1.19) it is working fine. Is it a bug in Latest Versions I.e 8.1.27??

Thanks to You 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-search-is-not-working-well-in-ignition-8-1-27/77913/4 "2023-08-16T22:07:35Z")

</div>

We should really get a project backup off to IA support so they can investigate the cause. If you can send off your original 8.1.19 project which didn't have the issue until upgraded to 8.1.27, that would most likely help the most.