Hi Amber, When you use 'Keyfields' in the constituent lookup in Find Object, it searches across constituent name fields (first name, last name, institution, nationality and so forth) as well as all alternate names. Jeri Jeri L. Moxley Manager, Collection and Exhibition Technologies Collection Management and Exhibition Registration THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019 T: 212.708.9599 I F: 212.333.1102 I [log in to unmask] PPlease consider the environment before printing this email. -----Original Message----- From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Morgan, Amber Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:58 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Searching alternate names Does anyone have their db configured for searching alternate names? In our set up, if you try searching an alternate name from the objects module, or if you go into constituents and search "last names," it only searches the primary name, not the alternate names. I tried playing around with the query groups, but when I add "Alternate Names" into the Query Assistant, it adds another "first name" and "last name" field - so someone doing a search on a last name wouldn't know for sure if they were searching primary name or alternate name. So, question 1: Can I change how these fields appear in the Query Assistant? I thought for sure this could be done, but I can't figure out how to do it. Question 2: What if I don't want to separately search primary name and alternate name? Is there a way to combine these two searches easily? I can do it in Advanced Query, but I'm thinking of our average users who are scared of Advanced Queries. Any suggestions? Thanks, Amber the warhol: Amber E. Morgan Associate Registrar 117 Sandusky Street Pittsburgh, PA 15212 T 412.237.8306 F 412.237.8340 E [log in to unmask] W www.warhol.org The Andy Warhol Museum One of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Email newsletter http://members.carnegiemuseums.org/email Membership http://members.carnegiemuseums.org/SupportCMP