Some big improvements to Search to announce. We recently moved to new search servers and they’re providing much faster searches. In addtion to this upgrade, we’ve also added two new features:
- Record Not Communicated With: Now you can do specific time based searches to see whom you have not been in contact with. Very handy for keeping in touch with folks. This field accepts natural language input like ‘7 days ago’ which is nice for creating reports as the date does not have to be static.
- “Is Empty”: This is probably our #1 feature request of all time. People have always wanted an ablility to see what records have no email address, what records do not yet have their supertag info filled out. Now you have it! In the advanced search dropdown you will now see:
Just select the ‘is empty’ filter with no value and BatchBook will bring back any records with blank info for that field. A really nice way to make sure the data you need is on the contacts important to you.
With these changes, BatchBook Search just became a lot more powerful. We hope you get some good use out of it!
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I love getting neat BatchBook usage tips from our users. This happened again over the weekend as Andrew shared with us (via the BatchBook Forums) how he’s using FireFox 3’s “Awesome Bar” to quickly search for contacts in BatchBook.
Now that I have all my data in BatchBook, I wanted a quick way to pull up a contact. Thanks to Firefox and the Delicious.com extension, I have it!
(If you don’t know, Delicious.com is a great bookmarking application. It handles all my bookmarks. And there’s a handy Firefox extension.)
Be sure you have the Delicious extension installed. Then you can right click in the BB contact search box (upper right of any BB screen). Select “Add a keyword for this search in Delicious.” Then you can fill out the bookmark details and enter a keyword that will invoke the search.
Now I can search my contacts directly from the Firefox Awesome Bar. I just type “bb smith” and hit enter. Voila!
So, in summary, entering “bb darowski” into the address bar would automatically run a BatchBook search for “darowski” and take you to the results. Nifty! I immediately set this up and found it super useful. I then realized you don’t even need the Delicious extension to set it up.
Here’s how you can set this up for yourself:
Step 1: Right click (or control+click) on the search field in BatchBook. Choose “Add a Keyword for this Search”.
Step 2: Name your search and give it a shortcut (I’m using “bb”).
Step 3: Enter your search string. Entering “bb darowski” searches BatchBook for “darowski”.
Step 4: View your results.
Great tip, Andrew! Thanks for sharing!
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