Search Help - Profit Center
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To search for a Profit Center Number, enter a partial Profit Center Number or a sequence of characters that appear in the Profit Center's Description. Use an asterisk ( * ) as the wildcard.
Search by Partial Profit Center Number: Enter the part of the number that you know following by an asterisk. For example, entering P068* will retrieve all profit center numbers that begin with P068 (P068100, P068200, etc.)
Search for Characters in Profit Center Description: Enter a string of consecutive letters or numbers that appear in the profit center's description. For example, entering DESIGN* would retrieve profit centers whose description began with DESIGN. Another example: entering CHEM would retrieve all profit centers where the letters CHEM appeared anywhere in the description.
- Enter your Profit Center or Description search criteria. You can use both - be aware only those centers that match both entries will be retrieved.
- Click Search to retrieve and display a list of all matching names.
Re-sort the list by clicking on the column heading.
Select a profit center by clicking on the Profit Center number. The chosen profit center now displays as a search value - you can now click the Search for Cost Object button to retrieve matching cost objects.
Profit Center not listed? Start another search by entering new search information.
The Return button closes the Search Help window and brings you back to the eDacca Search Window you came from.
