Selecting product by search

Select Product By Search allows you to do a text search and find all products in which a specific string appears.

You can perform a search across all existing nomenclatures.

For example a search on Textiles will do a search on all existing nomenclatures and find all items in which the word "Textile" appears. Type Textile in the Search Text box and click on Searchbutton. The system finds all products with the text "Textile" in it. Now, you can use the scrollbar to view all the products and place a checkmark in check boxes to the left of each product. Finally, click on OK. The selected products from the search panel will be added to the Products dimension.

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Note1:You can select products only from one nomenclature. If you have already selected other Products in a different nomenclature these products will be removed from you Product selection list. In the search results if you try to select products from different nomenclature the system will not allow you to select a different nomenclature until you uncheck the eariler selected nomenclature.

Note2: Searching by text string does not guarantee that you will retrieve desired products: official descriptions may not include the string you use, and your text string may appear in the descriptions of products that are unrelated to the ones you are seeking. (For example, searching for "oil" retrieves products such as boilers and foil, in addition to oil products.) The Search tool is mostly helpful if you know a product description and you want to retrieve the corresponding product code.

To select products from Search:

1. Enter a product name or part of a product name in Product Search text box;
2. Click the Search button;
5. In the Search Results table, select products you want to include.

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