Search Page

When you need to select an item from a very long list, the browser displays an empty text box and two icons:

	Click to display a secondary Search page, or
	Click to remove any existing text from text box.

This secondary Search Page pops up outside of the Procurement application main window and remains visible as long as it is required. (When you have finished searching, or if you navigate to another part of the Procurement application without completing a search, the window automatically closes.)

The Search Page displays one or more labeled text box and two buttons. For example:

Manufacturer Name:

| ________

Address:

| ________

[Search]

[Cancel]

1. When searching, you must type, into one of the text boxes, a search string consisting of:
• An exact match for all or part of the needed information,
• Wild Card Characters, represented by the asterisk (*) symbol,
• A mixture of both.

When typing a search string into an Address field, type all or part of the street address only. Do not include City, locality, or postal codes.

2. Then click [Search].

The application a list of all matching items.

3. Click the Select Action icon, to the right of an item name, to select it.

Select Action icon

The Procurement application closes the Search Page, and returns you to the browser window.

Search Tips

For a successful result, your search string should include as many letters and symbols that you know are in the wanted resulted, but:

• If you supply too few characters, or too many wild card characters, the Procurement application or Database server may retrieve too many results and abandon the search (with an error message.
• If you supply too many characters, or too much information, you may exclude useful results that have variations in spelling.

You may type in a search string containing:

• All, or just the first few characters, of an item name. For example:
• National Paper Supply Co.
• National Paper
• National
• Use an asterisk (*) wild card character to represent unknown characters. For example,
• N*P*co*

The Procurement application displays all items:

• That exactly match the characters in your search string
• That begin with the characters in your search string, or
• That match the characters in your search string and have other characters where you used Wild Card Characters.

So that, in this example, N*P*Co* would return these matches:

Manufacturer	Action
National Paper Supply Co.
Natural Pepperoni Corp.
Nepalese Petroleum Consortium