DazzGC's avatar
DazzGC
User
10 years ago
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Search: Ability to search for partial item description

We are a small business with a large volume of SKUs, and approximately 30,000 line items. We can't remember all the product descriptions so the ability to search within a description string is quite essential. Xero and Sassu both search the entire description whereas MYOB requires you to enter the exact description. This is a real pain to generate item based invoices.


For example:

 

Product Description: Dark Blue Shirt

 

For MYOB you must search: "Dark" to bring this item up as an option, whereas you should be able to search for "blue".

 

MYOB retailmanager allows asterisk and question mark wildcard operators (ie *blue*) to search for a string within a string. At the very least Accountright should be able to offer this search functionality. I can't image it would be difficult.

 

The same search functionality would be useful for Customer, supplier and pretty much any other searchable field.

 

We will not be able to migrate invoicing to MYOB until this feature is enable or a suitable work-around (ie wildcards) is provided.


"Improved search functionality for searching within item description"

Inventory
Item Search
Purchases
Sales
Search
wild card

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  • BRE's avatar
    BRE
    Contributing Cover User
    9 years ago

    When generating an invoice and you are not sure of the Item Number or you have the incorrect number, could there be a box "Search all Items"  as a short cut rather than going to Inventory - Item List - Search and then back to your invoice and you have to memorise or copy. I know there is a drop down window that appears (which is great some times - but when the number is really incorrect and you are better off with a specific word seach) This would reduce the amount of backward forward in and out of windows.

    Thanks

  • DOSmith's avatar
    DOSmith
    Cover User
    9 years ago

    We are not able to search by Item number as there are to many to remember. 

     

    We set the search on Item Name but there are no options to set how the autofill searches the name field just the default search of starting with the first letter in the name field.

     

    We require autofill to search by 'any word' not the default search. Everybody remembers the name differently but can remember part of it.

     

    MYOB please give us more options here!

    • mit78c's avatar
      mit78c
      Cover User
      8 years ago

      Hi

       

      I agree and the problem with this is that there are plenty of people who want this function but are all explaining it differently.

      please MYOB scan the requests and collaborate these ideas.

      I too am frustrated with the inability to search an already added item at the invoice stage, by having to remember how the added item starts on its description.

      By wild carding or autofilling the search there would be countless hours saved

      The autofill function works elsewhere in the system ie lists>items> search , bank register.

      There was a reply to a similar post stating that it would take too long to search the list, bollocks as mentioned its implemented elsewhere in the system.

      please help 

  • AlanT's avatar
    AlanT
    Partner
    10 years ago

    Hi Michael,

     

    Interestingly enough, this type of searching has already been implemented in MYOB's Essentials product...

     

    Alan

  • KattC's avatar
    KattC
    Former Staff
    10 years ago
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    Hello DazzGC 

     

    Thank you for your request for wildcards in the search function, I believe that a lot of clients will benefit from this future. If there is anyone else out there that would like this please vote and leave your comments. 

     

     

  • mit78c's avatar
    mit78c
    Cover User
    10 years ago

    Spot on this would be very helpful i also posted a similar request but couldn't exactly work out was i was trying to request eg "wildcard search function", because the wildcard search works in the bank register area of the the current MYOB account right 2015.1.

     

  • Steven_M's avatar
    Steven_M
    Former Staff
    10 years ago

    Hi DazzGC 

    Are you referring to the name of the item or the actual description field (i.e. click into the item and select the Item Description)?

    Also what version of the program are you on? Help>>About would confirm that information.

  • Steven_M's avatar
    Steven_M
    Former Staff
    10 years ago

    Hi mit78c 

    Thank you for voting and your feedback, I've shared your thoughts with the team.

  • DazzGC's avatar
    DazzGC
    User
    10 years ago

    I am referring to both when entering an item based invoice/sale. In the item code, you can start typing th description but it only works if you start typing the EXACT description.

     

    I am running Accountright Plus 2015 online version. 2015.1.17.580

  • Steven_M's avatar
    Steven_M
    Former Staff
    10 years ago

    Hi DazzGC 

    While it doesn't work for the entering of invoices, if you are want to search for an item in the Item Register but only know a part of the item's number or name. you can use the Advance search feature. if you go to Inventory>>Items Lists>>Highlight one of the items in the table and select CTRL + SHIFT + F. This will bring up the advance search option, if you type in a series of characters it will search that window for that set of characters.

    For example I created an item called "Dark Blue Shirt", If I use the Advance search I can type in blue and it will find that item.
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  • DazzGC's avatar
    DazzGC
    User
    10 years ago

    We are aware of the advanced serarch function, but we were are creating 100+ entries per day (between invoices, goods received, purchase orders, quotes), having to use the advanced find fuction is not practical. For us , it is a usability issue, and we cannot adopt Accountright unless we can invoice at the same speed (or faster) than our existing system.