Wednesday, December 21, 2011

No Wildcard ... hmm ... are we wrong ... ?

A great comment was posted on the most recent post about missing wildcard searchers .....


From: Anonymous <noreply-comment@blogger.com>
Subject: [Exploris Computer - Tips & Tricks] New comment on Basic Omissions .... NO Wildcard Search in Part Nu....
Date: 20 December, 2011 7:08:44 PM EST
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Basic Omissions .... NO Wildcard Search in Part Nu...":


If in POS click on the PN/SKU/UPC. The '%' will work at the beginning, middle or end. The '*' can also be used instead of the '%'.


Also you can use the '_' character to wildcard a single character.
Ex. 8__0S I'm looking for 8660S seal but the 66 is missing.


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Here are some screen images .... showing the points .... NOTE -- we can't figure out the 'beginning' wild card search ...  but the MIDDLE and ENDING wild card searches  -- thank you so much for that clarification .... it reminds us that sometimes we need a verification on some 'issues'  ..that the help desk are sometimes wrong ...

Here is the % in the middle  ... the * or % can be used ...go try it
Here are examples of the underscore to represent a single unknown digit ( used less often )

and the wild card search at the rear of the part

Now --how to make the wild card search work at the beginning of the part  ....

REMEMBER -- open the parts box for this search ... try it ... that is how you learn

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

To use the wildcard at the beginning you have to put the wildcard in brackets. [%] or [*] or [_] or [?]
Forgot to mention that ? works the same as % *

Anonymous said...

From my previous comment...Forget about the ? as a wildcard. Not sure whats is parameters are but it doesn't work the same as % or *. Sorry for the confusion.

Anonymous said...

The ? works like the _...Single character replacement.