Search on the Wild Side
Wildcard searching in Flexmls allows you to strengthen your search if you are ever unsure about what exactly you are looking for. Normally, when filtering by a street name in Quick Search, there might be limitations on the search results you get. For example, if you enter a street name, such as “wood”, you will get back only search results that start with wood. However, a wildcard search will let you insert an asterisk in place of a word or letter. By adding an asterisk before wood (*wood), you will be able to see all search results that end with wood, such as Dogwood, Hollywood, and Northwood. If you add an asterisk after wood (wood*), you will get search results that begin with wood, such as Woodlawn, Woodstar, and Woodward. You can also add an asterisk before and after wood (*wood*) to search all results that have that term anywhere in the field. This is a helpful tool if you don’t remember the full street name you are searching, but this tool can be used many different ways.
Check out this help article to learn more. Also, did you know that when searching the Public or Private remarks, you can just type in a word (no asterisks) and it searches the entire remarks for that particular word? Follow this guided tour to see how you can search public or private remarks with a wildcard to help compensate for common misspellings of words.