Use a wildcard character to help you quickly and easily find records with filters of the Recordsdashboard tab. The filters use a wildcard character to do a search of one or more characters.
Filters of the Records dashboard tab have two wildcard characters that you can use:
Underscore ( _ )
Asterisk ( * )
An underscore does a search of one character. An asterisk does a search of one or more characters.
Wildcard character example shows the Records dashboard tab with a Name (*For Wildcard) filter selected. The box of the filter shows a wildcard character in the search text.Figure 1. Wildcard character example
Examples of search text that use the wildcard characters
Examples of search results
The examples of the table use a set of four patient names:
Ruby
Ruth
Rover
Rintincan
Table 1. Wildcard characters table
Wildcard character
Search text example
Search result example
Asterisk ( * )
R*
Ruby
Ruth
Rover
Rintincan
Ru*
Ruby
Ruth
*can
Rintincan
A*
No result
Underscore ( _ )
R_by
Ruby
R__h
Ruth
__ver
Rover
A record that you want to find with the Records dashboard tab can possibly have a character that is the same as a wildcard character. For example, a contact record could have B_CODE in its name. To tell a filter to ignore the character, put a backslash ( \ ) before it. For example, to tell a filter to ignore the underscore in B_CODE, enter B\_CODE in the applicable filter box.
