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APPENDIX II – General Principals Introduction Throughout the CERS/SVD system, there is a consistent model used for permitting the User
to carry out common functionality. This section of the document will provide you details for
the following functionalities:
- Searching and use of wildcards
- Tabular-data paging and sorting of information
Searching
* Wildcard *
The CERS system provides multiple interfaces for searching different types of entities. These
search functions follow a similar process in order for the User to gain familiarity with the
system. The process involves the User specifying certain search criteria that are used for
narrowing the search results and once these criteria have been specified the User clicks on
the Search button.
A useful function that is provided in certain search forms where it is deemed appropriate is
the use of Wildcard-enabled fields. These fields permit the User to specify a part of the
search term that they wish to use and to precede or follow this term with the Wildcard
character. By doing so, the system will return results that contain the partial term that was
entered. NB The Wildcard character that is used by the system is the % character and
Wildcard-enabled fields are indicated by the Wildcard icon .
Validation of specific fields is carried out at this point to ensure that the mandatory fields
have been filled and that all of the data entered is valid.
The results of the search operation will then be displayed in the familiar tabular format,
providing the User with summarised data for each entity returned that can be used for
distinguishing and identifying the pertinent record.
CERS – Search operation pages (Wildcard usage example)