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 at least 3 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), the TEXTTOSEARCH with a text matching one of the images names 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=TEXTTOSEARCH' | python -m "json.tool" Now check that the totalcount match with the number of entries returned (if you found 1 entry, it should say 1) If you execute the curl request removing the &search=X, totalcount should match the number of entries returned as well If you search for a text that doesn't exit totalcount should be set to 0 Now, in the web interface check that the pagination when you do a Search in the View tab works as expected: Create new entries in the database (minium a total of 5 entries required) Set "Entries per page" to 2 and then do a search in the View tab. The search should match at least 3 entries. Check that you see search 2 pages and you can navigate between the.