Finding email addresses?

[PatriciaW]

I have a layout which has email addresses. When the user does a find request entering the first characters of an email address it returns nothing. Is there a problem when the field has special characters such as '@'. There is a similar problem with web URLs.

What am I doing wrong?

[Osman]

@ means joker char in finding. You should add sign to indicate @ is not typed as joker char

Your seacrh criterion sholud be "@".

Adam Djuby

[PatriciaW]

That is not my question ... the user is not searching for the @ part of the address. For example one record has a email address like [email protected]

Usually the user would enter a query with the following in the field:

"abc". This works in other fields but it does not find anything for this find.

Entering "abc*" does find the record, but this is not necessary in all fields. What is the difference?

[Raybaudi]

Hi

I can't replicate your problem !

can you send the file ?

[PatriciaW]

Hmmm ... in the process of generating a test file, I discovered that the find worked in the data file. But it didn't work in the UI layout where the find is done via a script.

Investigating this further, I see that I defined the field in particular as a calculation field, but incorrectly had defined it as a number. For some reason, this worked sometimes but not for some finds so that misled me.

Thanks for making me look closer at it. Problem solved

[Raybaudi]

I'm happy for you !

And for search engine of FM too !!