Search Bill

The Search Bill zone allows you to search for the bills using various search criteria. It also allows you to add the bills in a hold request. It contains the following two sections:

  • Search Criteria - This section contains the following fields:

    Field Name Field Description Mandatory (Yes or No)
    Search By Used to indicate whether you want to search for a bill using the bill details.
    Note: By default, the Bill Details option is selected.
    		 Not applicable
    Bill ID Used to search a particular bill.
    Note:

    The Search (The Search Icon) icon appears corresponding to the Bill ID field. On clicking the Search icon, the Bill Search window appears.

    On specifying the bill, the description of the bill appears corresponding to the Bill ID field.

    		 No
    Alternate Bill ID Used to search a particular bill using the alternate bill ID. No
    Address Source Used to indicate the address source of the bill.
    Note: The list includes only those values which are defined in the BILL_​ADDR_​SRCE_​FLG lookup field.
    		 Yes (Conditional)
    Note: This field is required if you are searching for bills using the state, country, or postal as a search criteria.
    Bill Date From Used to search bills which are created from a particular date onwards.
    Note: By default, the current date appears in this field.
    		 Yes (Conditional)
    Note: This field is required if you have specified the value in the To field.
    State Used to specify the state name. No
    To Used to search bills which are created till a particular date.
    Note: By default, the current date appears in this field.
    		 Yes (Conditional)
    Note: This field is required if you have specified the value in the Bill Date From field.
    County Used to indicate the county name. No
    Show All Bills Used to search all those bills where the bill amount is greater than or equal to zero.
    Note: If this field is not selected, the system displays only those bills where the amount is greater than zero.
    		 No
    Postal Used to indicate the postal or zip code. No
    Note:

    You must specify at least one search criterion while searching for a bill.

    ORMB search engine supports wildcard search, where you can substitute the percentage (%) symbol as a stand in for any word or letter in a search criteria. You can use the '%' wildcard character in all input fields except the date and ID fields. The '%' wildcard character is suffixed automatically at the end of the partial search criteria. Therefore, you may or may not specify the wildcard character at the end of the partial search criteria. However, you have to prefix the wildcard character manually wherever required.

  • Search Results - On clicking the Search button, the search results appear based on the specified search criteria.

    The Search Results section contains the following columns:
    Column Name Column Description
    Bill Information Displays additional information about the bill. In addition, this column has a context menu which helps in navigating to other screens in the application.
    Note: It has a link. On clicking the link, the Bill screen appears where you can view the details of the respective bill.
    Account Information Displays additional information about the account. In addition, this column has a context menu which helps in navigating to other screens in the application.
    Note: It has a link. On clicking the link, the Account screen appears where you can view the details of the respective account.
    Country Displays the country name.
    State Displays the state where the county is located.
    County Displays the county name.
    Postal Displays the postal or zip code.
    Entity ID Displays the entity ID.
    Note: Pagination is used to display limited number of records in the Search Results section. You can use the navigation links, such as Previous and Next to navigate between pages.

    In addition, this section contains the following button:

    Button Name Button Description
    Add Used to add a bill to the hold request.

    A check box appears corresponding to each bill. On selecting the check box, you can add the bill to the hold request. You can also select multiple accounts at the same time. In addition, you can select the check box corresponding to the column header. This allows you to add all the bills listed in the respective page to the hold request.

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