Find Animal Screen

The Find Animal screen allows you to enter detailed searches for groups of animals within your database. The top half of the screen is given over to various criteria you can enter to filter your animals by. At the very top of the screen is a toolbar, allowing you to submit and execute your search, open the selected animal for viewing/editing, clear all the criteria fields and to print the search results.

If you press the search button without entering any criteria, you will get a list of all animals on the shelter who are still alive. This is because the location box defaults to ``Only Animals On Shelter'' - if you change this to ``(all)'' you will get all animals who are still alive, wherever they are. This is because the search automatically excludes dead animals. If you wish to include dead animals, tick the box labeled ``Include deceased''.

Once you press the search button, Animal Shelter Manager will search through your database and check each record against any critieria you have chosen, and return to you a list of all those that matched. For example, you could quite easily search for all animals of species ``Dog'' who are still on the shelter, located in a particular block and under 6 months old.

The criteria fields follow one of three types:

• Drop Down Boxes: You should select something from the list or the ``(all)'' entry to specify that you do not want to filter by this criteria.
• Text Boxes: The system expects you to type part of a word, name or code etc. For example, typing ``ben'' in the ``Name'' box on the find animal screen will return all animals who have ``ben'' somewhere in their name - eg: Ben, Benji, Benson etc. Some boxes require numbers - the ``aged between'' boxes require an animal age expressed as a year, or fraction of a year. Entering 0 in the ``From Age'' box and 0.5 in the ``To Age'' box will return animals who are six months old and younger.
• Check Boxes: Here, you are expected to tick the box to indicate a yes or no value - eg: Ticking the ``Include Deceased'' box includes dead animals in your search results.

For more information about what the criteria boxes expect, hover your mouse over them.