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Viewing Results

The system may sometimes return lists of items, Shopping Carts or Orders and items too long to be viewed all at one time. If so, the browser displays VCR-style control buttons like this:

• Click to display the first page of the results table  (not displayed on the first page)
• Click to display the previous page of the results table 
• Click to display the next page of the results table 
• Click to display the last page of the results table (not displayed on the last page)

Beside the buttons, the browser displays the number of the current page and the total number of pages in the report. For example when displaying the last page of an eight page table:

Displaying: 1 - 8 / 8

Making Selections

In the browser, there are three methods for making selections and supplying information to the system:

• Free-form Text Entry
• Selecting from a Drop-down menu
• Searching in a Pop-up Window       

Free-form Text Entry

The Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition interface displays an empty, white text box, with an I-beam pointer. For example:

You can type any text or numbers you wish into the text box. 

The system may impose a test on your input and reject it, if it contains too many or invalid characters. For example, if you type a word where a numerical quantity is required.   

Selecting from a Drop-down Menu

The Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition interface displays a drop-down menu displaying a default value and a menu  button , like this:

Filter by:
Status

You may:

• Accept the default value, or
• Click the drop-down menu button , and pull down a list of valid options. 
• Click on an item in the list to select it, and it is displayed in the text box.

You may not type any new text into the text box or edit any of the drop-down menu options.  

Searching in a Pop-up Window

The browser displays an empty, gray text box and two buttons, like this:

Manufacturer:

• Click to display a Large List Search pop-up window, or
• Click the to remove any existing text from text box.    

Large List Search Pop-up Window

This window pops up outside of the main Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition window and remains visible as long as it is required. When you have finished searching, or if you navigate to another part of Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition without completing a search, the window automatically closes.

The pop-up window displays an empty text box and two buttons, like this:

You may type in a  search string containing: 

• All, or just the first few characters, of an item name. For example: 
  • National Paper Supply Co.
  • National Paper
  • National
• Use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard to represent unknown characters. For example, N*P*Co*

Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition displays all items: 

• That exactly match the characters in your search string
• That begin with the characters in your search string, or
• That match the characters in your search string and have other characters where you used wildcards (*). 

So that, in this example, N*P*Co* would return these matches:

Results Manufacturer                 National Paper Supply Co.                                      Natural Pepperoni Corp.                  Nepalese Petroleum Consortium

Action

Click to the right of an item name to select it. 

Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition closes the Large List Search pop-up window, and returns you to the browser window.

Technical Information If your Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition installation uses an Oracle Database, then searches will be case-sensitive and upper case letters are recognized as being different from lower case letters. If your Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition installation uses a Microsoft SQL Server Database, then searches will be case-insensitive and upper case letters are treated the same as lower case letters. Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition limits the number of characters you may type. You cannot type more characters than the size of the database field to be searched.

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