Changes to quick property search function via main menu

The quick property search function is accessed via the main menu:

• Click Property

• Use the search bar shown to the right to carry out a quick property search

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• Only property address details are searched

• Contact/company details held on a property record are no longer searched, meaning no contact names, contact details (e.g. phone number/email) or contact addresses are included in the search

Example

• Searching using a name will only look at the search term within the property address

• It will not look at contact or company records containing this search term
  e.g. Wilson (which is typically a name) is only returned when it is part of a property address

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• Only one wildcard search is used in a search

• The wildcard is only applied to the end of the search term, rather than to every space within the search term/phrase, as done previously

Example

• Searching for ‘65 Long’ will return results that match ‘65’ exactly and start with ‘long’
  (‘long’ is the last term within the search and therefore where the wildcard is applied)

• Prior to this release, a wildcard would also be applied after the number - for example, searching for ‘6 Long' would have returned the property in the example below, along with ‘61 Long Street, 62 Long Street, 63 Long Street, and so on) - now, searching for '6 long’ will only return properties that contain '6 long’ at the start of the search term

• Up to 50 search results will be shown for each search type
  i.e. up to 50 sales properties and 50 lettings properties

• Where a search has more than 50 results, this is indicated as 50+

To view more than 50 search results, the existing Advanced Search function should be used instead

From the bottom of the main menu:

• Click Advanced Search and select Sales/Lettings Property Search, as appropriate

• The Advanced Search screen is displayed showing the full property search results
  In this example, there were 97 properties matching the search term

• Only live properties will be returned

• Archived properties will not be included

Example

When searching for an archived property via quick property search:

• If the search does not return any matches, the option to click advanced search is offered

• OR, if the search does get live property matches, click Advanced Search at the bottom of the menu bar and select Sales/Lettings Property Search, as appropriate

• The Advanced Search screen is displayed pulling through the previous search term

  • Tick Archive
    The archived property is displayed on the right