The Search controls on the Search tab give you the ability to search for any kind of published element (such as Providers, Services, etc) in a structured way.

First, a search control is always divided into two tabs: Search Terms and Results. You can toggle between these two tabs at the top left of the console. As you might guess, the Search tab contains controls through which search criteria is specified and through which search queries of the registry are launched.

The results tab will contain a view of the type of record sought.

The Search tab controls through which query terms get constrained are grouped together in a panel in the center of the console. The Find button that launches a query can be found just below and to the right side of the query controls.

In text field controls terms entered are always applied as if followed by a silent universal wildcard. Elsewehere in a term, other Wildcards can be used. The "%" character can always be placed at the end of any string and in some contexts at the beginning, to force expansion of a query term to match any string. For example the string "Ac%" would return "Acme" and "Actors", "Actuarial", and "Ace". Using "%" in a control all by itself returns all records in the database of a particular type.

The "_" wildcard matches a single character. For example "C_U" would match "CPU", "CDU", and "CLU". These two wildcards can be escaped using the backslash "\" character.

Once a result set is returned the Query tab gets focus and is brought to the top of the console. You can then work with your results through the view.