diff --git a/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/search.spec.ts b/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/search.spec.ts
index d9036b22fb..ab4c28a90d 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/search.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/search.spec.ts
@@ -780,6 +780,32 @@ describe.each([
       it("fails to find nonexistent row", async () => {
         await expectQuery({ oneOf: { name: ["none"] } }).toFindNothing()
       })
+
+      it("can have multiple values for same column", async () => {
+        await expectQuery({
+          oneOf: {
+            name: ["foo", "bar"],
+          },
+        }).toContainExactly([{ name: "foo" }, { name: "bar" }])
+      })
+
+      it("splits comma separated strings", async () => {
+        await expectQuery({
+          oneOf: {
+            // @ts-ignore
+            name: "foo,bar",
+          },
+        }).toContainExactly([{ name: "foo" }, { name: "bar" }])
+      })
+
+      it("trims whitespace", async () => {
+        await expectQuery({
+          oneOf: {
+            // @ts-ignore
+            name: "foo, bar",
+          },
+        }).toContainExactly([{ name: "foo" }, { name: "bar" }])
+      })
     })
 
     describe("fuzzy", () => {
@@ -1002,6 +1028,32 @@ describe.each([
       it("fails to find nonexistent row", async () => {
         await expectQuery({ oneOf: { age: [2] } }).toFindNothing()
       })
+
+      // I couldn't find a way to make this work in Lucene and given that
+      // we're getting rid of Lucene soon I wasn't inclined to spend time on
+      // it.
+      !isLucene &&
+        it("can convert from a string", async () => {
+          await expectQuery({
+            oneOf: {
+              // @ts-ignore
+              age: "1",
+            },
+          }).toContainExactly([{ age: 1 }])
+        })
+
+      // I couldn't find a way to make this work in Lucene and given that
+      // we're getting rid of Lucene soon I wasn't inclined to spend time on
+      // it.
+      !isLucene &&
+        it("can find multiple values for same column", async () => {
+          await expectQuery({
+            oneOf: {
+              // @ts-ignore
+              age: "1,10",
+            },
+          }).toContainExactly([{ age: 1 }, { age: 10 }])
+        })
     })
 
     describe("range", () => {
diff --git a/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/search.ts b/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/search.ts
index 286a88054c..e2ec743d0e 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/search.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/search.ts
@@ -66,37 +66,12 @@ export function removeEmptyFilters(filters: SearchFilters) {
   return filters
 }
 
-// The frontend can send single values for array fields sometimes, so to handle
-// this we convert them to arrays at the controller level so that nothing below
-// this has to worry about the non-array values.
-function fixupFilterArrays(filters: SearchFilters) {
-  const arrayFields = [
-    SearchFilterOperator.ONE_OF,
-    SearchFilterOperator.CONTAINS,
-    SearchFilterOperator.NOT_CONTAINS,
-    SearchFilterOperator.CONTAINS_ANY,
-  ]
-  for (const searchField of arrayFields) {
-    const field = filters[searchField]
-    if (field == null) {
-      continue
-    }
-
-    for (const key of Object.keys(field)) {
-      if (!Array.isArray(field[key])) {
-        field[key] = [field[key]]
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  return filters
-}
-
 export async function search(
   options: RowSearchParams
 ): Promise<SearchResponse<Row>> {
   const isExternalTable = isExternalTableID(options.tableId)
   options.query = removeEmptyFilters(options.query || {})
-  options.query = fixupFilterArrays(options.query)
+  options.query = dataFilters.fixupFilterArrays(options.query)
   if (
     !dataFilters.hasFilters(options.query) &&
     options.query.onEmptyFilter === EmptyFilterOption.RETURN_NONE
diff --git a/packages/shared-core/src/filters.ts b/packages/shared-core/src/filters.ts
index 3c6901e195..d4d5918bbb 100644
--- a/packages/shared-core/src/filters.ts
+++ b/packages/shared-core/src/filters.ts
@@ -327,6 +327,35 @@ export const buildQuery = (filter: SearchFilter[]) => {
   return query
 }
 
+// The frontend can send single values for array fields sometimes, so to handle
+// this we convert them to arrays at the controller level so that nothing below
+// this has to worry about the non-array values.
+export function fixupFilterArrays(filters: SearchFilters) {
+  const arrayFields = [
+    SearchFilterOperator.ONE_OF,
+    SearchFilterOperator.CONTAINS,
+    SearchFilterOperator.NOT_CONTAINS,
+    SearchFilterOperator.CONTAINS_ANY,
+  ]
+  for (const searchField of arrayFields) {
+    const field = filters[searchField]
+    if (field == null) {
+      continue
+    }
+
+    for (const key of Object.keys(field)) {
+      if (!Array.isArray(field[key])) {
+        if (typeof field[key] !== "string") {
+          field[key] = [field[key]]
+        } else {
+          field[key] = field[key].split(",").map(x => x.trim())
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return filters
+}
+
 export const search = (
   docs: Record<string, any>[],
   query: RowSearchParams
@@ -360,6 +389,7 @@ export const runQuery = (docs: Record<string, any>[], query: SearchFilters) => {
   }
 
   query = cleanupQuery(query)
+  query = fixupFilterArrays(query)
 
   if (
     !hasFilters(query) &&
@@ -528,9 +558,10 @@ export const runQuery = (docs: Record<string, any>[], query: SearchFilters) => {
     (docValue: any, testValue: any) => {
       if (typeof testValue === "string") {
         testValue = testValue.split(",")
-        if (typeof docValue === "number") {
-          testValue = testValue.map((item: string) => parseFloat(item))
-        }
+      }
+
+      if (typeof docValue === "number") {
+        testValue = testValue.map((item: string) => parseFloat(item))
       }
 
       if (!Array.isArray(testValue)) {