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Wildcard on Search or Advanced Search?

Richir Outreach By 
August 18, 2011

Is there a wildcard character for search?

I want to be able to search "field is not empty," "field is empty," and search emails addresses "%@coca-cola.com" (any email @domain.com)

Thanks! 

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This is not possible but a great suggestion you can add to our suggestion page! 

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  • Jason Meer
    NationBuilder employee
    commented
    Stefan,

    Here’s a couple potentially relevant suggestions ones –

    partial word search: http://nationbuilder.com/257920/partial_word_search_in_new_advanced_search
    regular expressions in search: http://nationbuilder.com/jerimee/regular_expressions_for_advanced_search
    posted 2017-04-06 18:52:09 -0700
  • Stefan Avlijas
    commented
    We definitely need this. Have you posted it as a new suggestion?
    posted 2017-04-06 11:28:18 -0700
  • Stefan Avlijas
    tagged this with Helpful
    posted 2017-04-06 11:28:17 -0700
  • Taylor Pineiro
    NationBuilder employee
    responded with completed
    posted 2016-07-05 13:15:08 -0700
  • Carol Osorio
    commented
    Im trying to edit our db to locate people w/blank city and add the city. I was told to use export import. I exported, added the city, now do I only map the id and city for the import? do I check over write (me thinks not) ??
    posted 2016-01-18 14:18:47 -0800
  • Richir Outreach

    Certified Developer
    Certified NationBuilder Developer
    tagged this with Answered
    posted 2012-12-23 12:20:01 -0800
  • Matt Drew
    commented
    I would love to see a wildcard search. The % or * characters, however, do not work.
    posted 2012-04-26 13:43:42 -0700
  • Steve Ontiveros
    commented
    I’d sure like to be able to search for records that don’t have data in a field. During an upload of over 8,000 records, the city field was not converted. I need a quick way to identify records with missing city’s so I can bulk update them. :/
    posted 2012-04-15 14:57:16 -0700
  • Jerimee Richir

    Certified Architect
    Certified Developer
    Certified NationBuilder Architect Certified NationBuilder Developer
    commented
    Hmmm, we used to have a wildcard, but we lost it. Should I post a feature request?
    posted 2011-12-12 16:45:41 -0800
  • Donald Darnell
    commented
    Is there a way to search for records with an empty field, e.g. no phone number, or no voter district assigned? This would be very handy!
    posted 2011-11-30 15:38:19 -0800
  • Jerimee Richir

    Certified Architect
    Certified Developer
    Certified NationBuilder Architect Certified NationBuilder Developer
    commented
    hmm… this no longer works. Will wildcard searches be restored later?
    posted 2011-10-11 18:33:35 -0700
  • Richir Outreach

    Certified Developer
    Certified NationBuilder Developer
    commented
    Answering my own question…

    “%” is totally the wildcard

    So you can use % to search for field not empty and “%@coca-cola.com” in the email field returns all contacts with a coca-cola.com email address.
    posted 2011-08-18 19:26:25 -0700

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