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HOW TO:
How to use Wildcard Characters with Reports
Overview:
Some of the production reports that come with FLEETMATE will prompt you for
information. These prompts support 'wildcard' characters, so that you may more
precisely define your criteria. The wildcard character used is the percent
(%)
character.
Procedure:
One report that supports search terms using wildcard expressions is entitled
"Labor Type Detail by Vehicle and Labor Desc", which can be found
under the "Maintenance" report type. To use this report
you will select the vehicles you want to include in your report, then click the
report name.
Once you click the report name, the report will then prompt you for the labor
description you are searching for. Your search term is not
case-sensitive. Some example search terms are listed below:
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oil - will list all work
orders for all selected vehicles where a labor line description EQUALS the
text "oil"
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%oil% - will list all
work orders for all selected vehicles where a labor line description
CONTAINS the word "oil"
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%oil - will list all work
orders for all selected vehicles where a labor line description ENDS WITH
the word "oil"
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oil% - will list all work
orders for all selected vehicles where a labor line description BEGINS WITH
the word "oil"
If you omit the wildcard
character, only exact matches will be found and listed. You may use a
wildcard character with multiple words/phrases. As an example, searching
for %oil filter% will return the following values, if found in your database:
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