Search Examples

Searching For A Residential Address

This type of search usually involves the following stages:

For example, to search for 65 Rushton Street, Carnavon, WA (from the Australia data), a user should follow these steps:

  1. Select the Single Line search method.
  2. Select Australia from the Country or Datamap drop-down box.
  3. Type the following search string in the Enter Search field, separating each part with a comma:

    65 Rushton St, Carnarvon, WA

  4. Click the Search button

    As Pro API only found one address which precisely matches the search criteria, it returns the address directly to the address edit dialog.

Searching For Names Information

This functionality is currently available for United Kingdom only. When United Kingdom with Names data is installed, search results will include the names of residents (where known) for each address.

Names are not available for searching on the initial stage, so users cannot enter a name as a search term.

For United Kingdom with names data the user can search for names information from a picklist of individual addresses. Additionally, the user can search for names information by viewing a list of all Names data for a given street.

Locating Names from an Address Picklist

This search method is useful if users know the postcodes of the names for which they are searching.

Users can return Names information for specific addresses, from an address picklist. For example, to search for the resident of 25 Maidstone Road, Swindon, SN1 3NL, a user should follow these steps:

  1. Select the Single Line search method.
  2. Use the Country or Datamap drop-down box to select a data mapping which includes a names additional dataset. In this example, United Kingdom with Names is selected.
  3. Type 25 Maidstone Road, Swindon in the Enter Search field. Click Search.

    A list of names is returned.

  4. Users can return the full address without a name by clicking the premises number at the top of the list.
  5. Alternatively, users can click on the required resident and the name and full address will be returned.

Locating Names at Street Level

This option is only available for searching United Kingdom with Names data.

This function enables users to view a list of all the Names data for a given street. The Names information is displayed at street level in a separate list from the premises data.

This search method is useful is users know the postcodes of the names for which they are searching.

This is useful if the exact premises or sub-premises address is not known, as the user can typedown on the relevant name to return the correct premises/sub-premises information.

To expand and view Names data at street level, a user should follow these steps:

  1. Select the Single Line search method.
  2. Select United Kingdom with Names from the Country or Datamap drop-down box.
  3. Type valley gardens, wimbledon in the search field, and click Search to display all premises and names data available for the selected street. Below the list of premises, a list of all Names data for all premises in the given street is displayed in alphabetical order.

    Alternatively a user can type in the name of the resident to return matches with just that name.

  4. Type Believe in the Search field, and click Search to display any residents of the selected address who have the name Believe.
  5. Click the required resident to return their name and full address, including premises information.

Searching For An Organisation Address

This search usually involves the following stages:

United Kingdom (Businesses)

In addition, United Kingdom data is available in a Business additional dataset. This enables users to capture address information for United Kingdom businesses.

Business data is provided by the Post Office and by Experian. Users can select which type of business data they want to search on in the Format Options dialog of the Configuration Editor.

To search for a business address in United Kingdom with Business data, a user should follow these steps:

  1. Select the Single Line search method.
  2. Use the Country or Datamap drop-down box to select a data mapping which includes a Business additional dataset. In this example, United Kingdom with Businesses is selected.
  3. Type Experian, london in the Search field and click Search to display a picklist of matching results.
  4. Click on the required match to return the full business name and address.

Searching For A PO Box Address

If your users are searching for addresses which contain post boxes, such as PO Box in the UK and Roadside Mail Box (RMB) in Australia, the post box number should be preceded with the official post box descriptor for the current dataset. For example, with the Australia data, a user would need to precede the post box number with "RMB".

The will fail if this descriptor is not included as part of the search.

To search for a PO Box address numbered 3376 in Coventry in the United Kingdom, a user should follow these steps:

  1. Select the Single Line search method.
  2. Select United Kingdom data from the Country or Datamap drop-down box.
  3. Type PO BOX 3376, Coventry in the Search field and click Search to return the matching entry.