Searching

OpenVPMS supports wildcard searches as outlined in Wildcards

In many cases, wildcards are automatically added to Search criteria, so that any record with a name that contains the criteria is returned.  E.g. searching for a diagnosis with oedema might return:

This is not true of customer, patient or product searches; here the default behaviour is to return records with names that start with the criteria. E.g. searching for a customer named Smith won't return records with the name Goldsmith. This can be changed by prefixing the criteria with a *. E.g. *smith

To make contains searches the default for customers, patients or products, the QueryFactory.properties file in <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/openvpms/WEB-INF/classes can be changed.

#
# Uncomment the following two lines to make substring searches for customers the default.
# Note that for large no.s of customers, this could affect performance
#
#party.customer*               org.openvpms.web.component.im.query.CustomerQuery,contains=true
#party.organisationOTC         org.openvpms.web.component.im.query.CustomerQuery,contains=true

#
# Uncomment the following line to make substring searches for patients the default.
# Note that for large no.s of patients, this could affect performance
#
#party.patient*                org.openvpms.web.component.im.query.PatientQuery,contains=true

#
# Uncomment the following line to make substring searches for products the default.
#
#product.*                     org.openvpms.web.component.im.product.ProductQuery,contains=true

E.g., the following enables contains searches for all of them:

#
# Uncomment the following two lines to make substring searches for customers the default.
# Note that for large no.s of customers, this could affect performance
#
party.customer*               org.openvpms.web.component.im.query.CustomerQuery,contains=true
party.organisationOTC         org.openvpms.web.component.im.query.CustomerQuery,contains=true

#
# Uncomment the following line to make substring searches for patients the default.
# Note that for large no.s of patients, this could affect performance
#
party.patient*                org.openvpms.web.component.im.query.PatientQuery,contains=true

#
# Uncomment the following line to make substring searches for products the default.
#
product.*                     org.openvpms.web.component.im.product.ProductQuery,contains=true

Note that:

• Enabling customers or patient searches could adversely affect performance. In the worst case scenario, every customer or patient will be scanned for matches.
• Any change won't be picked up until either the web application or Tomcat is restarted.
• The change will be need to be re-applied each time the web application is deployed.