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title: "Find/Search Purchase Orders"
slug: "findsearch-purchase-orders"
updated: 2024-01-30T19:16:54Z
published: 2024-01-30T19:16:54Z
canonical: "wiki.cobblestonesoftware.com/findsearch-purchase-orders"
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# Find/Search Purchase Orders

### **Find/Search Purchase Orders**

**Purchase Orders: Find/Search**

The **Find/Search POs** feature allows users to perform field-level searching and reporting for Purchase Orders in your Contract Insight application. This search option is helpful when searching for something such as all POs to which an employee is assigned.

**To Navigate to the Find/Search POs Screen** Navigate to **Purchase Orders** > **Find/Search POs**.

![Navigation to Find/Search POs from the Waffle Menu](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/Find%20Search%20POs.png)

The **Find/Search** screen for Purchase Orders displays where users can either view all Purchase Orders in the system or perform a field-level search for a specific value populated in a PO field.

![Find Where can locate a value from a field and display records which match your filter](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/Find%20Search%20Purchase%20Orders.png)

**To View All Purchase Orders in your CobbleStone® Application** On the side menu of the **Find/Search** screen, click **View All** link to have a grid display listing all Purchase Orders in the Contract Insight application.

![View All will display all Purchase Orders in the system](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/View%20All(1).png)

![List of Purchase Order records after clicking View All](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/4(18).png)

**Field-Level Searching** To perform a field-level search on the **Find/Search** screen for Purchase Orders, click the **Find Where** drop-down and select the field on the Purchase Order Details screen by which to search.

![Find Where drop down can be used to locate a value in a field and display records matching that value](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/image-1667520440889.png)

Depending on the selected field's field type, different options display:

- **For Drop Down Fields:** a second drop down will show to select the value you would like to search where the field equals a value.

![A second drop down will appear for Drop Down fields to select the value you would like to search](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/Vendor%20.png)

- **For Text Entered Fields** (such as Text Box, Currency, Integer, Decimal Field Types)**:** you will be asked to enter text into a text box where you can find where the selected field **Is Like**

![Text Entered Fields will ask to enter text where you can find where the selected field is like](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/Contact%20Person.png)

- **For Date fields:** enter/select (using the calendar icon) two dates within to search via **Date is Between**.

![Select two dates within to search](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/PO%20Date.png)

**NOTE:** If a **Find Where** field is selected, **View All** is not available; click **Start Over** before clicking **View All**.

## Recent Updates

There is also a section on the Find/Search page that displays the 5 POs most recently updated by the logged in user.

![Displays the most recently updated POs from the user logged in](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/Top%205%20PO.PNG)

Clicking **More** takes the user to a page with a longer list of Purchase Orders recently updated by the logged in user.

![Clicking More will display a longer list of updated PO records by that user](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/Recent%20Updates%20Page%20PO.PNG)