Wildcards

Wildcards can be used in the FIND sections on list screens or in the REPORTS window.

Wildcards are special characters that allow you to select a range of items based on variable elements in their spelling.

The two wildcards that can be used are:

·   * (asterisk) means: any number of any characters

·   ? (question mark) means: any character (For example, type ‘b?ll’ to find either ‘bill’ or ‘ball’ or ‘bull’)

Examples

1. You want to find all of the books with ‘john’ in the Author field from the Book list screen:

·   In the Author field in the Find Books section at the top of the screen, you could type:

 john

This would result in a list of books where the Author field begins with ‘john’.

·   In the Author field in the Find Books section at the top of the screen, you could type:

 *john

This would result in a list of books where ‘john’ appears anywhere within the Author field.

2. You want a list of all books with the word ‘apple’ in the Title field from the Book list screen:

·   In the Title field of the Find Book section at the top of the screen, you could type:

 *apple

This would result in a list of all books with the word ‘apple’ anywhere in the Title.