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MelissaReed
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I'm building my reports with InforAssist. I want to have my users put in a partial ID number (like *123456) as a prompted filter. Is that possible?

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WebFOCUS 8.0.09
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btiedemann
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Hello Melissa,

you can use the filter condition "Contains characters", enter the search value without wildcards(*) that works.
If the simple filter function doesn't offer this condition, take the advanced filter.
Also available is the "Like character mask", it works like the "Contains characters", but I don't know the difference.
Have a nice day

Bernd


WebFOCUS 8.1
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MelissaReed
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Thank you, I was able to get the "contains characeters" to work exactly as I needed.


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Dave
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or use LIKE

and teach your users to use % as a wildcard and a _ as a wild character.


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