Oak Ridge National Laboratory Personnel Directory

Overview:

The Search Page allows you to enter search values for the Ph Server. At least one Indexed Lookup Field search value must be entered. The Ph Server ignores both case and word order in the search values. Click on the Search button to display the results of the search.

Metacharacters

When the exact spelling of a name or other value is not known, a partial value can be entered using special characters called metacharacters. The following metacharacters can be used in a search value:

Metacharacter Description
? Matches any one character.
Example: t?m would match "Tim" and "Tom".
[ ] Matches any one of the characters between the brackets.
Example: jo[ah]n would match "Joan" and "John".
* Matches any characters or no characters.
Example: jo*n would match "Jon", "Joan", "John" and "Johann".
" " Matches a pattern enclosed in the quotes.
Example: "j* smith" would match "John Smith", "John A. Smith" and "James T. Smith".

A search value cannot start with a ?, [ ] or * metacharacter. In the last example, the word order is important.

Links:

None.

Buttons:

Clicking on the Search button will submit your search request to the Ph Server. The results of the search will be displayed on the List Page.

Clicking on the Clear button will clear the search values.

Clicking on the Help button will display this page.

Error Messages:

The most common error messages occur when the Ph Server is searching for records. Each search must include at least one Indexed Lookup Field value. If not, the following message is displayed:
Ph Server: Did not understand query.
If no records match your search values, the following message is displayed:
Ph Server: No matches to your query.
If a search returns more than 1,500 records, the following message is displayed:
Ph Server: Too many entries to print.
Personnel Directory has additonal error messages related to processing your search requests:
Personnel Directory: No search values.
This message means that you did not enter any search values on the Search Page.

Personnel Directory V1.1
Last revised on December 10, 2007 		UT-Battelle
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