Keyword searches and wildcards
All the searches described below include a keyword or phrase search function. This can be helpful when you are looking for a case, activity, issue or document and you don’t know the exact term.
When entering your search terms:
Search matches the words that start with the search term you entered. For example, searching for
Joh will match
John,
Johnson and
Johannes.
To find text appearing anywhere in a word use the wildcard symbol
*. For example, searching for
*son will match
Johnson,
Wilson,
Jackson and
Parson, while
J*son will match
Jason, Jacobson and
Johansson.
To find text when you aren’t sure of the spelling use the wildcard symbol
~. For example,
John~ will also return
Jon.
To search for a key phrase enclose the text in double quotes. For example, a document search for “Letter from GP” will return all documents containing that key phrase in either the title or description