Answers.Body: <p>You can use placeholders for this.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>'%' for any number of characters</li>
  <li>'_' for exactly one character</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Searching for '%CEO%' will find all contacts that have that substring somewhere in their position field.</p>
  
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Body: <p>in CiviCRM running on WordPress I had to recognize that it creates problems when filling in two positions into the position field when adding a contact. The main problem is that you've got to type the exact name of the position when searching for a certain contact that's got that position. If this contact has got two positions, however, CiviCRM won't show that contact unless you search for both positions. Then, however, the search does not make any sense, since you would have to know all position of your contacts in advance...</p>
  
  <p>Am I making a mistake here or is there a solution to that problem?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot for looking at this!
  Best regards
  Jannis</p>
  
  <p>Edit: I am using the German translated version where the field 'position' is called 'Funktion'. So in an earlier version of this post it said 'function' instead of 'position'. Thanks a lot, @jitendrapurohit, for pointing at that problem! :)</p>
  
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Comments.Text: What do you mean by the word `function` here? Is that a custom field?
Comments.UserDisplayName: jitendra - fuzion
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Comments.Text: It's a field where you can state the position of a person in a job, company or organisation. But maybe the term is different in English. I'm using the German version. In German the field name is 'Funktion', maybe in English it's 'Position'?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Jannis Eicker
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Comments.Text: @jitendrapurohit thanks for pointing to that language problem!
Comments.UserDisplayName: Jannis Eicker
Tags: <contacts><search>
Title: Add another position to a contact or enable fullt-text search for position field
ThreadText: # Add another position to a contact or enable fullt-text search for position field
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-11-06)
  
  in CiviCRM running on WordPress I had to recognize that it creates problems when filling in two positions into the position field when adding a contact. The main problem is that you've got to type the exact name of the position when searching for a certain contact that's got that position. If this contact has got two positions, however, CiviCRM won't show that contact unless you search for both positions. Then, however, the search does not make any sense, since you would have to know all position of your contacts in advance...
  
  Am I making a mistake here or is there a solution to that problem?
  
  Thanks a lot for looking at this!
  Best regards
  username_0
  
  Edit: I am using the German translated version where the field 'position' is called 'Funktion'. So in an earlier version of this post it said 'function' instead of 'position'. Thanks a lot, @jitendrapurohit, for pointing at that problem! :)
  
  **Tags:** contacts, search
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: What do you mean by the word `function` here? Is that a custom field?  
  > **username_0**: It's a field where you can state the position of a person in a job, company or organisation. But maybe the term is different in English. I'm using the German version. In German the field name is 'Funktion', maybe in English it's 'Position'?  
  > **username_0**: @jitendrapurohit thanks for pointing to that language problem!  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-11-07. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  You can use placeholders for this.
  
  * '%' for any number of characters
  * '\_' for exactly one character
  
  Searching for '%CEO%' will find all contacts that have that substring somewhere in their position field.
  
  
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