Specifications

44 Searching the Database
ID Works Basic Version 5 Operator’s Guide
The Quick Search dialog box contains a field for each searchable
field in your Production Form. For example, you may see fields for
First Name and Last Name. You search on these fields by entering a
full or partial name. If necessary, use the scroll bars to see all of the
searchable fields. You can also change the size of the dialog box by
dragging one of the lower corners.
You will never see a photo field in a Quick Search dialog box because
you cannot enter search criteria for photos. In addition, the project
designer may have excluded some Production Form fields from the
Quick Search dialog box to keep it simple.
The kind and amount of information you enter in the Quick Search
dialog box determines how many records the database system finds
for you. If you click the Quick Search button without entering
anything in any of the fields, the database system shows you all the
records in the database. For example, if a database for a project has
15 records, clicking the Quick Search button without making any
entries in the dialog box results in 15 records.
Refining the Quick Search
Selecting all the records in the database is fine to demonstrate how a
search works on a small sample database. But it is not practical when
your database contains hundreds or thousands of records. You can
reduce the number of records displayed by entering more specific
information in one or more search fields and by using wildcard
characters. For example, in the project Sample Loyalty, the following
Quick Search dialog box returns 2 records—all the records of people
in the database whose last names start with R.
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