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Message started by Dale on 03/15/07 at 07:00:07

Title: Wild Card & other searches
Post by Dale on 03/15/07 at 07:00:07

Are there any plans in the works to allow "wild card", "contains", "starts with", "ends with", and/or Boolean searches?

As we search through inventory (we have 18,000 part numbers), BOM's, Work Orders, etc, it's very time consuming to find certain data because we can't do those kind of searches.

Title: Re: Wild Card & other searches
Post by kkmfg on 03/15/07 at 08:35:50

I've suggested that before so obviously I'd second your suggestion. ;-)

Title: Re: Wild Card & other searches
Post by NovaZyg on 03/15/07 at 09:12:32

Watch this, it may help.

www.istechsupport.com/flash/grid_filters.html

:)

And you can also Save and reload filters..

www.istechsupport.com/flash/quickdrillfilt.html

:)

And Back in the 2/14/07 post is Sub String Searches..

www.istechsupport.com/flash/SSSFD.html

Title: Re: Wild Card & other searches
Post by Dale on 03/15/07 at 09:20:12

Thanks Allen!

Those were very helpful. We'll see if we can get smarter....

thanks again
Dale

Title: Re: Wild Card & other searches
Post by kkmfg on 03/15/07 at 10:09:44

Just because I'm a pain in the rear I'd like to offer some suggestions after having watched each video. I mostly like the way it's set up but have a few things I don't like.

NovaZyg wrote:

Watch this, it may help.

www.istechsupport.com/flash/grid_filters.html

I know that $ means LIKE but can you expect the average person to know that? Maybe instead of symbols you could use short words? (LIKE, EQUALS, LESSTHAN, NOT EQUAL, etc?)

Quote:

And you can also Save and reload filters..

www.istechsupport.com/flash/quickdrillfilt.html

This is cool but it seems sort of not user friendly. You can save and load but the filenames are mangled, there's no easy way to save the current query onto itself. That's a rather routine thing to want to do.

Quote:

And Back in the 2/14/07 post is Sub String Searches..
www.istechsupport.com/flash/SSSFD.html

This is good but why not make the main search field be substring by default? That would be the most intuitive thing to do.