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1 Searching for invoices

All user profiles can retrieve invoices of the companies they have user rights for.
You can only search for invoices in the invoice list.

To search for invoices:

• Select the appropriate company and document type: incoming or outgoing invoices.
• Open the search filter by clicking (Open filter), by clicking again on the same icon you will close the search filter.
• Add a filter line:
  • Select the field you want to filter on, you can filter on:
    • Header fields, like supplier, invoice number…
    • Posting line fields, like account…
    • Technical fields, like status, scanning date…
  • From the drop-down list, select an operator. The available options are:
    • Include
    • Exclude
    • Empty, in case there is no value.
  • Type a value in the “From” “To” fields, if you want to select a range of values, if you want to select only one value, type only this value in the “From” field.
    Values can be selected by typing in the value, or by selecting them from the lookup list, or via the date picker.

if you want to search “from date” till today, you have to specify also the todays date: use “w” as shortcut for the today!

• You can add more lines by pressing
• You can delete filter lines by clicking next to the line.

• Press the “Apply filter” button to execute the filtering, or just by entering.
• The filter icon will be colored red, in order to indicate that the invoice list contains a filtered list.
• A new invoice list with the selected values will appear.
• By pressing “Clear filter” you can clear your search criteria.

2 Using wildcards

In order to facilitate your search wildcards like “*” or “%” can be used:

• *text, means: all values ending with “text”.
• text*, means: all values beginning with “text”.
• te*xt, means: all values beginning with “’te” and ending with “xt”.

If you type text, the search will be applied based on ‘text*’.

Search is not case sensitive.

3 Saving search criteria as favorite

Create a filter as described in Searching for invoices.
Give your search criteria a name and save your filter by clicking the “Save filter” button. Note when a favorite filter already exists with the same name, the filter will be overwritten without any notification.

4 Search invoices based on a favorite filter

• Select the appropriate company and document type: incoming or outgoing invoices.
• Search your favorite filter by clicking (Open favorite filter), by clicking on (Close filter) you will close the search filter.
• Select your favorite filter by clicking on the filter name, press “Apply filter”. “Clear filter” in order to clear your search criteria.
• Additional lines can be added, or lines can be deleted following the instructions under [ Searching for invoices].

5 Exporting invoices to pdf

You can export the invoice images to pdf from the invoice list view.
You can select the invoices by Searching for invoices, or by selecting invoices for PDF export by selecting the check boxes at the beginning of the invoice list.
You can also select all invoices by clicking the box next to the label bar.
Click on (Export to pdf), to export the images (invoice plus attachments) to a PDF file. For each invoice a new bookmark, containing the ScanPRO ID is created.

Only “exportable pdf attachments” will be included in the PDF.

Up to a maximum of 100 documents can be exported per download.

6 Exporting invoice data to Excel

You can export the invoice header data to an Excel file from the invoice list view.
You can select the invoices by Searching for invoices, or by selecting the check boxes at the beginning of the invoice list.
You can also select all invoices by clicking the box next to the label bar.
Click on (Export to Excel), to export the header data to an Excel file.
You have an option to select the list data, or all data, by selecting “Export all fields”

• List data: fields are included, which are visible in the list.
• All data: all fields are included.

Up to a maximum of 1000 invoices can be exported per download.

7 Exporting invoice data to zip

Similar to exporting invoices to pdf, you can export the invoice images to a Zip file from the invoice list view.
Folder structure is created based on ScanPro id.

Up to a maximum of 100 documents can be exported per download.

8 Full text search

8.1 Introduction

The full text search feature can be used to find a single (or multiple) document(s) based on a search field which is located at the top of the archive list screen (see screenshot below).
This powerful feature gives the user the ability to search a document on a search value which will be used to search in invoice data, as in text which can be found in the image of the document.

Examples of usage:

• User wants to have a list of documents which have the word “car” in invoice data.
• User wants to find an invoice for a notebook which has been bought 1,5 years ago. This invoice contains the serial number of the notebook, but this number is not stored in the invoice data.
  By entering the serial number in the search field, the user can still find his invoice.

By invoice data of the document, the following information of the document is meant:

• Header data
• Technical data
• Posting data
• Detail data

The user can’t specify on which field to filter, as the full text search feature will try to search in all fields of the document.
If he does want to filter on a specific field, the standard filter of ScanPRO should be used (and/or combined with full text search).

By image of the document, the following information of the document is meant:

• PDF image

8.2 How does this powerful feature work?

8.2.1 Invoice data

When providing a search value, all fields will be checked for a possible match. Depending on the field data type, a conversion is made:

• Text:
  • No conversion is made. User can type a word of the text field value. If a part of word is used, the wildcard character (*) should be added. Searching on text is case insensitive.
  • Examples:
    • Document has a text field which contains the value “Onea NV”.
    • The user will find the document if he enters:
      • Onea, ONEA, onea, on*, *nea, *ne*, …
    • The user will not find a match if he enters:
      • Ne, one, …
  • Note:
    • Using a wildcard character in front of the search value, can slow down the speed of searching
• Numbers:
  • A user can search for a number by entering some digits. If the user wants to search for a decimal number a dot (.) or (,) can be used for comma. A thousand separator is not supported.
  • Examples:
    • Document has a number field which contains the value “1.000,45”.
    • The user will find a match if he enters:
      • 1000.45, 1000,45
    • The user will not find a match if he enters:
      • 1.000,45
• Dates:
  • Only the date format dd/mm/yy is supported (d = day, m = month, y = year).
  • Examples:
    • Document contains a date field which contains the value “18/03/85”.
    • The user will find a match if he enters:
      • 18/03/1985
    • The user will not find a match if he enters:
      • 18-03-1985, 18.03.1985
• Partners & lookuplist items
  • The user can enter the code or the name of a partner/lookuplist item to find a match. It’s not possible to search on fields of a partner/lookuplist item.
  • Examples:
    • Document has a partner field which contains the value “Onea NV (5090)” .
    • The user will find a match if he enters:
      • Onea NV, 5090

8.2.2 Image

Full text search searches for literally values in PDF images. The user should search for text like it is printed in the image.

Examples:

• Image contains the value: “ … BE.0883.668.416 … “ -> the user needs to type the search value exactly like it’s printed in the PDF. Don’t replace “.” with spaces for example. Of course, it’s still possible to use a wildcard character like “BE.0883*”.
• Image contains the value: “11-09-2010” -> the user needs to type the search value exactly like it’s printed in the PDF. Don’t provide format dd/MM/yy for example.
• Image contains the value: 1.456,57 -> to type the search value exactly like it’s printed in the PDF . Don’t provide format 1456.57.