Search Instructions

Default behavior

The system searches within the text in a column. For instance, if you enter so in the last name search field, it will match Johnson, Souza and Dobson. Thus, it doesn't matter where in the text the sequence is found, nor does it matter whether the text is in upper or lower case.

Traditional wild-card symbols are used. An asterisk (*) ignores zero or more characters, and a question mark (?) skips a single character

In addition to the traditional functionality, you can specify an or condition by entering a vertical bar (|) between two search terms. So if you are looking for someone named Karen or Karin, you can enter karin|karen

Advanced behaviors

To switch to optional behaviors or to show additional columns to search on, click "Open" Expanded search options. This will allow you to turn off some of the simplifications of the search methods, which allows for more advanced search approaches.

If you uncheck the Search inside text box, your search text will start matching at the beginning of the text and also must match the entire text. In the example we used above, so would only match someone named So. With this option set, the equivalent search would be *so*

If you uncheck the Use simplified search style, searching is performed using regular expressions ("RegEx"). Such expressions are very powerful, which comes at the cost of more complex syntax, beyond the scope of this text. For an introduction to RegEx, click this link: RegEx on Wikipedia