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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Dynamic Searching

Using Dynamic Searching with BrokerWare Effectively

What is Dynamic Searching? – Dynamic searching is a new feature on BrokerWare that dynamically returns results as you enter the search criteria. Instead of typing your search and hitting a button to obtain results, Dynamic Searching produces results as you are typing. Dynamic Searching can be found throughout BrokerWare, most notably with the Customer Search and Load Search fields.

Basic Searching – By default, the results being displayed will be anything that contains the text entered in the search box. For example, if you search for “truck”, valid results would include: “ABC Trucking”, “Truckload”, and “Monster Truck”.

Advanced Searching – There are also times when you need to narrow your search and find items that begin with a letter or just a few letters. This can be done by prefixing your search criteria with the caret key, “^”. For example, if you only want items that begin with “truck”, you would type “^truck”. This will return results like “Truckload or “Trucking Company”, while excluding unwanted results like “ABC Trucking” or “Monster Truck”.

If you are having trouble getting any results, using the caret key "^" by itself will return the top few items.

truck Containing "truck"
tr Containing "tr"
^tr Starts with "tr"
^truck Starts with "truck"
^ Show first few results