Just as you can search for e-mails, you can search for notes too. This lessons shows how to enter the various criteria to find specific notes.
Click on the [Find] button in the main toolbar to open the finder tool.
Click on the [Notes] tab to search for personal or shared notes.
Click on the [...] buttons to search using phrases or words in the subject or body of a note. The "Full Text Search" dialog will appear, specify your search criteria here. The following steps further explain how the text search dialog works.
Agents need to type a key word(s) to search for notes containing the key word(s). For example, as shown in the image above, "test" is the keyword used to search for a note with this word in the subject header. Click [Ok], to confirm search criteria.
Click [Preview] to generate search result. All notes with subjects containing the word "test" will be displayed.
If you wish to narrow down the search results, you may search using advanced search.
With all of the words - Searches and displays notes that contain all the words typed here.
With exact phrase - Searches and displays notes that contain the exact phrase typed here.
With at least one of the words - Multiple words can be entered, notes that contain any one of these words will be displayed in the search results.
Without the words - Searches the body of notes that do not contain these words.
Specify the date range of the notes you wish to view. The dropdown calendar is used for selecting the dates in each field.
In the [From date:] and [To date:] fields you may specific date and time ranges, number of hours back from the current time or the number of days/weeks/months ago from the current date.
To filter notes for the current date, you may use the [Several hours back] filtering option. Specify the number of hours you want to go back on the current date, in the highlighted field.
You may also specify by number of days, weeks or months ago
Clicking on the dropdown displays the list of previously saved search results. Clicking on [Last Search] displays the fields that were filled in, in the previous search.
To save a new search result, clear the textbox, click on [Save As] to save your search results.
To permanently remove saved search result, first select the saved item from the list, then click the [Delete] button to remove search results.
To update previously saved search results, select the results you wish to update from the dropdown list. Make the changes that you wish in the various search criteria, then click on [Save As]. A popup will prompt you to confirm the changes.