Conducting Global System Searches

The Solar Eclipse main menu bar contains a global search field that you can use to search the indexed fields of orders, product records, customer records, vendor records, and contact records. Using this search provides you one place to search on more than one type of entity in the system. For example, you can search for a customer and quickly access their customer record, or any orders for that customer in a single place.

You can also use the global search to search for menu items. For more information, see Searching for Menus.

Conducting a global search:

With the main Solar Eclipse menu bar window selected, select what you would like to search for from the Search drop-down list located on right side of the main menu.

The icon displayed indicates what the system searches:

Icon	The system searches...
	All entity types and menus. Results are grouped by category, and indicated with the icons described in this table. This is the default.
	Menus accessed from the Solar Eclipse main menu. For more information, see Searching for Menus.
	Product records
	Contact records.
	Vendor records.
	Customer or vendor records
	Sales orders, purchase orders, and transfers.

Click in the GlobalSearch field in the Solar Eclipse main menu bar or press Ctrl+Alt+S to move your cursor from any Solar Eclipse window to the field.
Type the keywords for which you want to search and press Enter if the auto-complete feature is turned off. If the auto-complete feature is turned on, the system displays the matching results after you enter the first 3 characters of the word for which you are searching.

If more than 100 items match the criteria you enter, the system prompts you to narrow your search by typing additional characters or by selecting a category.

Select an item in the returned list and press Enter to open it.

For example, if you select a customer listing and press Enter, the system displays the record in the Customer Maintenance window.

Turning Off the Auto-Complete Function

By default, the Search field auto-completes and searches as you type. As you continue to type in the field, the system refines the search results to meet the additional information you type. You can also turn the auto-complete feature off and activate the system search by pressing Enter after you have typed the search criteria in the field.

Turning off the auto-complete function:

From the File menu, select Preferences to display the Preferences window.
Click the Advanced tab.
Select the Disable Auto-Completion in Widget Search check box and click OK in the Message box and OK in the Preferences window to save your changes.

Selecting this check box also disables the auto-complete feature in the Quick Sales Order Entry widget.

Log out and back in to Solar Eclipse.

Hiding the Global Search Field

If you do not use the global search, or would like to turn it off to conserve menu space in the Solar Eclipse main menu bar, you can hide the Search field.

Hiding the global Search field:

From the File menu, select Preferences to display the Preferences window.
Click the Advanced tab.
Select the Hide Global Search Field from Main Window check box and click OK in the Message box and OK in the Preferences window to save your changes.
Log out and back in to Solar Eclipse to no longer show the Search field in the main menu bar.