Using Wildcard Characters to Find Information

PeopleSoft applications support three wildcard characters to help you search for data in character fields. You can use these wildcard characters to find the information that you need. The % and _ wildcard characters work in all autocomplete fields. On search pages and look up pages, wildcard characters only work with the begins with and contains operators.

Note:

Certain applications support wildcard characters that are specific only to that application. See your application-specific product documentation for details.

The supported standard wildcard characters are:

Wildcard	Search Action
% (percent symbol)	Match one or more characters.
_ (underscore)	Match any single character.
\ (backslash)	Escape character; do not treat the next character as a wildcard.

For example, if you enter P%admin in the Description field for the User Profile, then the system returns a list of User Profiles that begin with P and contain 'admin' as you can see in this example:

This example illustrates using wildcard characters on a search page.