Create a course with a database using the image gallery preset Enrol a couple of users as teacher and student in that course As the student or teacher add a couple of entries to the database Enable "Mobile services": Site administration ► Mobile app ► Mobile settings Create a Token in the mobile app service for the student in the course: Click on Site administration ► Plugins ► Web services ► Manage tokens Next, you can do a CURL REST call simulating a WS client with the student. You need to replace the wstoken, databaseid (database instance id), search with a key word you want to search and the URL of your moodle instance curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'databaseid=8&wsfunction=mod_data_search_entries&wstoken=12a2a65aeea2a177055e233f9e303218&moodlewssettingfilter=true&search=searchtexthere&returncontents=1' | python -m "json.tool" Now check that you receive the entries that matches the text you searched for (you can do the same search in Moodle web version an check that the returned entries are the same) You should also check that in the listviewcontents field you see HTML output with the entries rendered (as they are rendered in the Moodle web version) except for the template header and footer. Now, remove the search parameter and add the following: &advsearch [0] [name] =fn&advsearch [0] [value] ="juan" (replacing juan with the firstname of the users who created at least one entry) Check that you receive the list of entries created by the specified user And finally, instead searching by name do the following: &advsearch [0] [name] =f_ID&advsearch [0] [value] ="text" where: in f_ID the ID should be replace by the field id on where you are going to search and text with the text you want to search in taht field. For example, if you have a text field with id 30 and there is an entry with the word "car" in that field you will have to use: &advsearch [0] [name] =f_30&advsearch [0] [value] ="car" Execute the curl request and check that you receive the entries matching the text in the field.