Searching

Some of the most commonly used features in Otobase begin with a search. Whether you are creating a report, exporting data, building a graph or printing a letter, you begin by searching for such things as subjects, providers or clinical data, and then putting the results together in different ways.

This group of topics will show you some of the essentials of searching, using examples from a tumor-related version of the program to help you visualize typical Otobase search methods. After you learn a few basic searching concepts, you'll soon be using this powerful tool to simplify some of your most frequent tasks.

For more detail about creating effective searches, refer to the "Searching" and "Database Design and Theory" chapters in the Otobase User Guide.

Opening the Search form

Using the New Query form

Working with search sets

Saving and loading searches

Executing Sequential Searches