Searching for Entries

You use this procedure to search for directory entries.

Before executing a search, note the following:

• Always use a search criterion that is as precise as possible. Otherwise the search is slow and the result may be incorrect.

• If you leave the search criterion field empty, the search results are a random collection of entries, or all entries in the selected directory if their number is smaller than the search limit. Therefore, we recommend that you use a search criterion in all searches.

• The search criterion field is not case-sensitive.

• Depending on the amount of data and the accuracy of the search criteria, the data retrieval may take a while.

• The search field retains 50 entries you have searched for during the current session and displays them in a popup menu.

• Communication Desktop (CDT) ignores the following special characters when you include them in the search criterion:

  Symbol	Term
  ’	single quotation mark
  !	exclamation point
  '	apostrophe
  $	dollar sign
  %	percent sign
  &	ampersand
  ( )	parenthesis
  +	plus sign
  -	minus sign
  /	forward slash
  :	colon
  ;	semicolon
  =	equal sign
  ?	question mark
  @	at sign
  [ ]	square brackets
  \	backslash
  ^	circumflex accent
  `	grave accent
  { }	braces
  |	vertical slash
  >	greater than sign
  <	less than sign
  ~	tilde
  ,	comma