Thanks for responding.
I'm still a bit confused/frustrated. I would like to create a service via ArcGIS Online hosting that I can then use in a web map that will allowing searching for a feature based on some value in my table.
It doesn't look like there is a prefab ArcOnline web template with Search capability. (Which seems strange, isn't this one of the most common things to do?) No problem, I thought, I'll just use one of the JavaScript samples (I'm not a competent programmer, rather a cutter, paster, scripter).
The problem is the only service ArcGIS online is creating is a feature service. This apparently can't be used as a dynamic service?? And there is no code examples for using the find function with a feature service (unless I missed it).
Funny to say but I missing the good old days of ArcIMS.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thank!