In the WebClient UI, further search functions are available specifically for business partner searches. These are available in addition to the generally available search functions (see Search Functions).
You can activate a search with improved performance for searching for business partners using a combination of search criteria in name and address fields. For more information, see Performance-Enhanced Search.
You can activate a fuzzy search for accounts, contacts, and employees to provide search results when a user does not know the precise search string. For more information, see Fuzzy Search.
You can activate a wildcard search for accounts and contacts in WebClient UI. By default, this search function is available only for the following communication data:
Telephone number (all types)
E-mail address
Website
You can enter an asterisk (*) at the beginning or the end of the search string. For e-mail, you can also put the asterisk within the search string.
If you want to support wildcard searches for other attributes, you can create a customer enhancement of the relevant SAP-defined classes.
To use this function, you must activate the business function Sales and Service (CRM_SLS_SRV_1
).
For more information, see the documentation for the required Customizing activity in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management
, under . The wildcard search is based on Enterprise Search (ABAP).