# Getting Started

## Extended Search

| To make searching for information in Agile e6 more rapid and convenient, you can use the Extended Search facility. The extended search facility helps the user when search criteria cannot be defined exactly. An extended search offers the following advantages: You can link search criteria with a logical OR. You can save the query or the results. You can apply a Ranking to the search results. Ranking means that the results will be weighted, with those conforming to all the criteria specified receiving a score of 100%.
| The following settings have to be set in order to be able to use the extended search facility:
| EDB-QRY-BAS has to be set to "1" in the Default Data. This is a user-specific setting.
| In the Representation form, the Use query form for retrieval check box has to be selected. You can open this form with the Tools > Options > Representation ... menu.
| The extended search facility is only made available in list view.
| By default, the search form will contain all fields of the list from which it was opened. If only some of the fields should appear in the search form, the Edit-Action userexit xqry_eda has to be configured in the Output Mask Customizing (in the Item List example). The fields that are to appear in the form are specified in the /QUERY option while the /RANK option can be used to turn on the fuzzy search. In the following example, the search form definition was as follows: xqry_eda(/QUERY=T_MASTER_DAT.PART_ID..T_MASTER_DAT.AGG_FLAG/RANK)
| ### Using Wildcard Characters in Search Criteria
| For further information about Wildcard characters please see the document Search.