Search a catalog too big to browse.

Forty thousand albums, seven hundred tags and one search form: the visitor types a few letters, narrows by the tags they care about, and reaches the record they were after.

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Album search 40,000 albums

Tin

Alt rock 1996

Matching album1 match

Tin Spells Moon Choir · 1996

Choices searched as you type

Illustrative experience

Choices from your own records
Tens of thousands of options
Keyboard and screen reader friendly

The finished experience

Forty thousand records, found one at a time.

Nobody scrolls a list, and the filters work the same for a keyboard or a screen reader as for a mouse.

A good fit for
Anyone holding a catalog, library or register too long to show as a list.

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Hold the catalog as entries

One entry per item, with its tags, its year and whoever made it.

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Fill the filters from it

Each field reads the catalog, so a newly added tag is automatically added.

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Make the long lists usable

Enable Advanced Select and add a Populate Anything filter where the searchable catalog property contains Advanced Select Search Value. That filter queries matching choices as the visitor types and enables lazy loading and infinite scroll.

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Inspired by a real build

AlbumBlitz: Searching Through the World’s Music with Advanced Select August 2023 Elle Dulaney is cataloging the world's music in one place. With 40,000 albums already, she turned to Advanced Select to make them searchable. Read the spotlight

Written up, step by step

How to Make Gravity Forms Drop Downs with Massive Datasets Searchable How To · November 2025 Make your Gravity Forms Drop Downs and Multi Selects searchable, so users can find what they need instantly, even with thousands of choices. Read the tutorial

What you’ll need.

Start with Gravity Forms. Add the capabilities this solution needs, then make the experience your own.

GP Advanced Select

Adds searchable, keyboard-navigable choices. Its Search Value filter with Populate Anything loads matching catalog records in batches.

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Fills those fields from the catalog itself, so the tags, years and names on offer are the ones that actually exist.

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Before you start

The catalog held as entries, posts, or a table Populate Anything can read.

Get this built.

A plan covers how many of our plugins you run at once, and on how many sites. Here is what this one needs.

Required

GP Advanced SelectPerks
GP Populate AnythingPerks

Gravity Perks Advanced $169 /year

2 perks need Advanced or above — on up to 3 sites.

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Every plan renews at the same price, and you can upgrade any time for the difference.

Make it fit
your project.

How many options can one field hold?

The featured catalog holds forty thousand albums and over seven hundred tags. With the Advanced Select Search Value filter configured, the default search starts after three characters and loads fifty matches at a time. Test the query against your own catalog and hosting.

Can visitors search the catalog using a keyboard or screen reader?

Yes. GP Advanced Select supports keyboard navigation and screen readers. Visitors can search, move through choices, and remove selected items using a keyboard. Those features helped AlbumBlitz make its large catalog usable with Elle’s braille display.