SearchCards - Ultimate Flexibility in Search.

Any sequence of: (i) navigating to the web page, (ii) filling forms from passcard, (iii) clicking Submit button, can be automated using a SearchCard, available at RoboForm ver 6.7.6. Word or sentence that you type in Search Box becomes an argument to SearchCard, and when you type a word or sentence in Search Box, select one of the SearchCards and click ENTER, the whole navigate-fill-submit sequence is executed automatically for you.

Download SearchCards from SearchCard Place

Our staff and outside contributors have created these valuable SearchCards that will save you hours of clicking on the Web. You can download them for free from SearchCard Place.

How to Create a SearchCard

1. Navigate to a web site, say, to maps.google.com (if you want to create a SearchCard for Google Maps).
2. Type word rfarg (for argument) into the search/lookup field.
3. ALT+Click the Submit/Search button, in this example "Search Maps" button.
4. AutoSave dialog comes up, with "Save SearchCard" box checked.
5. Type descriptive name into Passcard Name, such as "Google Maps".
6. Click "Save" and your SearchCard is saved.
7. Now when you type "11781 Lee Jackson Memorial Hwy, VA 22033" into Search Box, Google Maps appears as one of Search Choices. If you select it, RoboForm goes to maps.google.com, enters "11781 Lee Jackson Memorial Hwy, VA 22033" into search field, and clicks Search Maps button.
8. Since this SearchCard executes 3 steps, it is called a 3-step SearchCard.

1-step SearchCards vs 3-step SearchCards

If search argument appears in URL of the web page with results, then it may be possible to navigate to the result page directly and search arguments embedded into URL will cause web site to perform the search. If RoboForm sees that rfarg string that you entered into search field appears in URL of the results page then it will offer to save 1-step SearchCard that goes to the result URL directly. Note that not all SearchCards work in 1-step variant, as often all 3 steps are required. Example: Google Maps SearchCard does not work as a 1-step SearchCard, it requires 3 steps.

Domain Completion SearchCards

When you want to automate adding prefixes and suffixes to domain name, such as www.domainname.com, www.domainname.org, www.domainname.co.uk, you can do it using 1-step SearchCards.

Example: you want to create a SearchCard that will navigate to www.domainname.ac.uk when you type domainname. Download and save any other Domain Prefix/Suffix SearchCard, for instance, Go to www.arg.org from SearchCard Place. In this passcard change URL from www.%rfarg%.org to www.%rfarg%.ac.uk and Prompt$ to "Go to www.%rfarg%.ac.uk". Name this searchcard appropriately (say, WwwArgAcUk) and you are done.

Text Selection as Search Argument

Select any text on web page and click RoboForm Search Box and the selected text appears in Search Box automatically. All you have to do is to select search action from the menu.

Example: select Siber address on the Contact page and then select Google Maps (created per instructions above) from the search list.

Hot Keys

Every SearchCard can be assigned a Hot Key, so that instead of going up and down the list of Search Choices you simply click the Hot Key for this SearchCard. Hot Keys are assigned in RoboForm -> Options -> Search.

Search Prompt

You can control what is shown in Search Box for your SearchCard. Edit the Prompt$ field in the SearchCard using Passcard Editor. %rfarg% is replaced with the typed sentence. For instance, you may want to have the following Prompt$ in Google Maps SearchCard: Show '%rfarg%' in Google Maps.

Argument Entry Dialog

If you select SearchCard from Logins menu of RoboForm toolbar then SearchCard Argument Entry dialog will be shown, it requests values of searchcard arguments. You can change prompts for arguments using the Prompt field of the searchcard: %rfarg:-Enter Address Here% that appears in Prompt field of SearchCard sets prompt to "Enter Address Here".

Multiple Arguments

You can have more than one argument to a SearchCard. In this case arguments should appear in SearchCard as %rfarg1%, %rfarg2%, and so on. When you enter more than argument in search box, they should be separated by , (comma).

E-mail for submitting SearchCards: searchcards@roboform.com
*important* please remember to "un-protect" before sending. This email is *only* for searchcard submissions.