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The finder window

The finder window is the basic tool allowing you to find records to which you want acceding. If you wish to read or modify a record, the first operation is to find it before modifying it. The finder form is accessible by two different ways.

Search a record

The icon “magnifying glass”, outlined in red, launches the finder interface for the records type related to the form. In the case of above screen, I will be able to find products, if I click on the icon.

Search a relational link

The icon outlined in red in the above screen, will find the product category (relation field) of the current product, among all the available categories.

The finder window

The finder window is divided into 2 areas:

• The critera selection area
• The list area for displaying the found results

The criteria selection

The criteria selection area allows to type criteria for searching records on the basis of one or several values, associated to fields of a record type. In our example, the product search, we can type every selected criterion in relation with a product : code, name, variant, category, type, etc.

Contrary to certain programs or search engines, the Tiny ERP finder is a research which “adds” the criteria. Thus, if you search the blue and square products, you will get, as result, the only products both square and blue.

For the criteria dates or numbers, you can specify an research interval. Thus, in the above example, you can search all the products which supplier's lead time is between 3 and 9 days.

When you type the criteria, you can use the key tab to move from a criterion to another. The ENTER key (equivalent to the Search button) allows you to seek the elements. ENTER a second time without modifying the search criteria (equivalent to the Validate button) allows you to validate the obtained selection.

Results

The results area displays, in a list form, all the records corresponding to the selected criteria. Once the results are displayed, if they don't satisfy you, you can modify one or more search criteria, and relaunch the research.

According to the type of research (search of record or relational link), you can either select one record or all the records (in the case of the product category, it isn't possible for a product to have several categories, so the research interface won't allow you to select several records in the results list).

By default, the research is limited to the first 80 results. To change this limitation, you can modify the advanced search parameters in the bottom left of the form.

The buttons

Three buttons are accessible in the search interface.

• Search: launches a research using the typed search criteria
• Cancel: closes the search interface without taking care of the eventual results area
• validate: closes the search interface after loading the selected records of the results area. You can select one or more records of the search results. If no selection update is done by you, they will be all loaded by default (because automatically selected by the search program).

To select one or more records, use the left button of the mouse combined with the <CTRL> or <SHIFT> key of the keyboard.

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