Find
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The first step in most Customer Service activities is to find a customer (subscriber or nonsubscriber) in Circulation. You do this by clicking the Find button () and entering search criteria in one or more of the fields that appear. Most fields support partial searches—for example, you can search for all customers whose last name starts with “Deer”. The field that the cursor initially defaults in, as well as the default value of the Search Type field, can be set via the Sign-On Defaults.
When you click OK, Circulation will display address, occupant, and subscription information that matches the search.
Transactions, subscriptions, and other information is listed on the tabs in the upper-right corner of the window. Additional information is accessed on the tabs in the lower part of the window. Each tab is discussed individually in the next section.
If more than one address or occupant matches the search criteria (or if a subscriber has more than one subscription), the Search Results window lists them separately—select an item in the list by double-clicking on it. Also note that you can click Recall to default the search criteria entered for the previous Find.
Also, a docked tab called “Past Searches” contains a list of previous Finds. You can repeat a past search by double-clicking an item in the list. A checkbox can be used as needed to keep track of past searches.
The Email combo box contains all email addresses for a customer. A green checkmark icon beside an e-mail address indicates that it is current. A red exclamation point indicates that it is outdated. Whether an email address is considered current or outdated is determined by the Business Rule, How many days after last use do Email addresses become outdated?. If the number of days since the e-mail address was last used exceeds the number of days entered here, the e-mail address is considered outdated.
E-mail addresses are entered on the Occupant tab.
The Transactions tab in the upper-right corner of the window lists all of the transactions associated with a customer. Each transaction status (e.g., processed, unprocessed, backdated, overdue, future) is indicated with a colored icon.
The Subscriptions tab in the upper-right corner of the window displays all products that are available to the selected subscriber. Colored icons indicate the current status of subscriptions: active subscriptions are indicated with a green sphere, perm stopped subscriptions with a red sphere, and temp stopped subscriptions with yellow sphere.
