Retrieving information from lookup file

[Stan-Lyn, Stanley Barnett]

Hi Don,

Its been over 20 years since I’ve tried using a fuzzy search.  Not sure why I abandoned yet.  Have you found it to be reliable, meaning you will always get the correct matches?  Would it return records containing a string reliably, as I have never expected it to do that at all.  In the meantime, I will look at it again.  Speed is going to be very important for this use case.  Image a clerk entering a 20 line item invoice where they would be doing a search in each line item…  I feel a lot of user pain…   What has been your experience?

Thanks,
Stanley



From: Don Becker <don at donstacklehawaii.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2019 2:30 AM
To: Stan-Lyn, Stanley Barnett <stanley at stanlyn.com>
Subject: Retrieving information from lookup file

Hi Stanley,

Regarding your need to retrieve data from a long field, have you tried doing a fuzzy browse look up?
You can specify the number of records to list in the browse.

The draw back is that if your file is large, it may take a few seconds to display your information.

Don Becker

(808) 554-8565
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