Searching with Portals?

[Quartekoen]

With our current software, users regularly enter customer numbers for invoices. If, however, they don't know the customer number, they can instead type in the first few letters of the customer's name and search through all the records that start that way, and then select the one they want.

I'm wondering if this is at all possible in Filemaker with portals. Basically, the portal would link to the customer database, and a field above it would take in the name. Any customers who's name started with what the user types in shows up in the portal. For example:

User types in: Ar

Portal results:

Ark Supplies

Arol's Tool Depot

Aroma Candles

(these companies are made up)

So, is this sort of simplicity even possible? Or would I have to create some sort of script to find the names and display those in the portal?

[Quartekoen]

Let me ask an even broader question:

Is it even possible in Filemaker to search based on whether the fields being searched begin with the search parameter?

[Josh Ormond]

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If not, search for Portal Filter. Ender post an explanation for someone.

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/171617/post/183594/#183594