Answers.Body: <p>To get around this issue, I was able to use Contact Reports then Constituent Summary and then I could choose the customn fields, including the FILE field, as an option in the report, and then I sorted on that File field to pull up all the contacts with a file attached.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>You can use SearchKit to search for entities where your field Is Empty or Not Empty.</p>
  <p>For Advanced Search, I don't think you should be able to set searchable on a File custom field. Isn't the searchable option hidden when you choose Data Type = File?</p>
  
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Answers.Text: It does have the SEARCHABLE column with Yes/No option under Custom Data Fields for the Data Type=file with Field Type=file.
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Answers.Text: See what you, looks like a bug, you shouldn't be able to change that. But this will be replaced with a new display in the not too distant future, so probably not worth fixing.
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Body: <p>I created a custom field type of FILE and it does have Searchable=YES but it does not come up as an option to search in Advanced Search.</p>
  <p>I am trying to list contacts that have a file attached to this file type field (versus contacts that have not had a file attached).</p>
  <p>Note that the other custom fields in the field set appear in the Advanced search, but not the File one.</p>
  <p>Is this possible to search like this?</p>
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
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Title: Contacts custom field of FILE type- how to search if file attached?
ThreadText: # Contacts custom field of FILE type- how to search if file attached?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-06-06)
  
  I created a custom field type of FILE and it does have Searchable=YES but it does not come up as an option to search in Advanced Search.
  
  I am trying to list contacts that have a file attached to this file type field (versus contacts that have not had a file attached).
  
  Note that the other custom fields in the field set appear in the Advanced search, but not the File one.
  
  Is this possible to search like this?
  
  Thanks
  
  **Tags:** wordpress, custom-fields
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2023-06-07. Score: 1
  
  To get around this issue, I was able to use Contact Reports then Constituent Summary and then I could choose the customn fields, including the FILE field, as an option in the report, and then I sorted on that File field to pull up all the contacts with a file attached.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2023-06-06. Score: 1
  
  You can use SearchKit to search for entities where your field Is Empty or Not Empty.
  
  For Advanced Search, I don't think you should be able to set searchable on a File custom field. Isn't the searchable option hidden when you choose Data Type = File?
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: It does have the SEARCHABLE column with Yes/No option under Custom Data Fields for the Data Type=file with Field Type=file.  
  > **username_1**: See what you, looks like a bug, you shouldn't be able to change that. But this will be replaced with a new display in the not too distant future, so probably not worth fixing.  
  
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