# Width of variable search field in advanced flows

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/width-of-variable-search-field-in-advanced-flows/142809>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Created:** [September 11, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/width-of-variable-search-field-in-advanced-flows/142809 "2025-09-11T06:08:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![McComedian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mccomedian/32/115125_2.png) [@McComedian](https://community.homey.app/u/McComedian)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/width-of-variable-search-field-in-advanced-flows/142809/1 "2025-09-11T06:08:22Z")

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I am only able to see app. 16 characters in the variable search results (in adv.flow editing view). I find this way too narrow and end up hovering mouse pointer over results to find the one I am looking for. Any way to increase width or any browser this behaves differently?

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**Author:** ![DirkH](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkh/32/78952_2.png) [@DirkH](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkH)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/width-of-variable-search-field-in-advanced-flows/142809/2 "2025-09-11T09:33:22Z")

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Sorry, I cannot help you in increasing the space. You could probably request some changes to Athom support.  
I have the same issue as I collect events over the day.  
In this case as a work around you can add the new events to the front instead to the end. Then you will see them earlier.  
Set _(a)eventCollector_ as ‘_time_: _(a)newEvent_; _(a)eventCollector_’  
instead of  
Set _(a)eventCollector_ as ‘_(a)eventCollector_; _time_: _(a)newEvent_’  
Maybe that helps a bit.