Using wildcards to search

You never need to enter a full name to search on, because by default, Synergetic assumes that you have typed in all or part of the beginning of the string of characters. For example, searching in the Surname field for a community member starting with the letters Li are returned:

• Liem, Luke
• Lill, Vivien
• Lim, Christopher
• and so on.

You can also search using the % symbol in a text field as a wildcard. When searching by name (given, preferred, surname and so on), you can use the % wildcard to match the records containing only the letters you specified in the order that you entered.

Depending on the placement of the %, you can return many different matches from the database.

Placing the percent symbol (%) first (before a string of characters you have entered) will return any surnames that contain the characters that you entered. These can be either at the end, beginning, or in the middle of the surname.

For example, search for surname %es will return:

• Barnes, Domenic
• Bates, Adele
• Best, Alex
• Bowes, Charles
• Weston, Julie
• Esteverez, Joanna
• Weekes, Craig and so on.