White Pages Help
All of the examples in this guide actually work. When wondering what a particular example might actually produce, simply click the appropriate button (Search) or click the link when that seems appropriate.
Searching is now more intuitive and allows you to search for exactly what you are looking for. Previously, if you entered two names together (james smith), any entry containing james or smith would be returned, when what you were actually searching for was someone named James Smith. Now the search assumes you mean james and smith. If you really want to see all James and all Smiths, just search for "james or smith."
The org number is no longer prepended with 1. or 2. These don't really mean much because there are now other companies in the white pages. The long and short forms now include the company name as a separate column, which is searchable.
If you are used to searching for a particular org, then you used to enter 1. or 2. followed by that department number (1.023). To do the same thing now, simply quote the department number ("023"). There are more examples below.
If someone had a preferred name or nickname, you couldn't search for their real name. If Robert prefers to be called Bob, you can now search for either Robert or Bob, although Bob (because it is his preferred name) is what is displayed.
Use the "Find Employee" field to search for an employee name . In fact you can search for several employees at once by separating each name with the keyword or.
All of the fields displayed are searchable, by the way. Not only can you search for an employee name , you can also search on e-mail address, mail forwarding address, telephone number, facsimile number, room number, department, company, and title.
As mentioned above, you can use the keyword or to search for more than one entry, or you may separate your target by the keyword and to refine your search selection. This is probably best illustrated by example.
A search for "smith" will return all employees who contain the word smith in any searchable field. This might be their first name, their last name, or their e-mail address. A search for "james" would do like-wise, of course.
But we can combine the two by searching for "smith or james" or "smith and james." In the former case, all employees containing smith or james are returned. In the latter case, only those employees that contain an entry for "james" and "smith" are returned.
If you omit the keyword or or and, the search assumes you mean and. Thus, a search for "james smith" means returns all employees that have an entry for "james" and "smith." In most cases, this means you will find the entry for the employee "james smith."
Find Employee:
is the same thing as
Find Employee:
but is not the same as
Find Employee:
But we can expound on this and request a search for "james smith or robert jones." This will return only those employees that contain a "james" and a "smith" or those employees that contain a "robert" and a "jones" in their entry.
Find Employee:
Finally, we can refine the search even further. Suppose we are looking for someone in Washington D.C. We know their name is either robert or james. With this we can narrow down the list of names using the following expression:
Find Employee:which says we are looking for a james or a robert and whose location is WDC.
Because your search target is by default a literal string, there will be times when your search returns more results than you are interested in; for example, if you want a roster of everyone in department 023, specifying 023 as your search string will not only return everyone in department 023, but also anyone whose phone number contains 023 or anyone whose office contains 023. Clearly, this is not what you expected.
If your target is quoted (with either single or double quotes), then that tells Sybernet that you are looking for an exact match.
Find Employee:
In general, this will return everyone (and only everyone) in department 023. If it so happens that someone's location is also 023, then that will be returned as well. As of this writing, however, there are no such collisions.
If you want a list of everyone in "SRI Consulting," then you would enter this as a quoted string as well:
Find Employee:
If you don't quote this string, Sybernet would search for anyone having SRI and Consulting anywhere in their name, title, e-mail address, or company.
To limit this search even further so that employees that are not in Houston are returned you would enter this:
Find Employee:Internally, employee names are stored as "lastname,firstname middlename" (note that there is no space before or after the comma). When all you are interested in is finding an employee name, you can take advantage of this by specifying names in this format; for example, a search for
Find Employee:will (of course) return all employees named Judy Li, but will (as of this writing) also return Judy Clayton because her job title contains an "li" in its description. But a search for
Find Employee:returns only Judy Li. If we had an employee named Judy Ali, she would be returned as well since these are "literal" searches. To search for an exact match, simply quote your search string.
Find Employee:Note that lastname will also contain any suffixes that apply. Most employees do not have a suffix, but if your search fails, that may be the reason. The examples below on matching character strings illustrate how the suffix (if any) can be ignored.
You can include special symbols for matching character strings. The following table describes those symbols:
| Symbols | Meaning |
|---|---|
| % | Matches any string of zero or more characters |
| _ | Matches any one character |
| [specifier] | Brackets enclose ranges or sets, such as [a-f] or [abcdef]. specifier may take two forms: rangespec1 - rangespec2: rangespec1 indicates the start of a range of characters.set: can be comprised of any discrete set of values, in any order, such as [a2bR]. Note that the range [a-f], and the sets [abcdef] and [fcbdae] will return the same set of values. | [^specifier] | caret (^) preceding a specifier indicates non-inclusion. [^a-f] means "not in the range a-f"; [^a2bR] means "not a, 2, b, or R." |
Examples
You can create some very complex expressions this way, and it is possible that your expression is not understood (perhaps because you omitted a matching parentheses). In this case, your search will return no results.
Searching for departments, divisions, and groups
At the bottom of each page is a link labeled [Departments] which summarizes all employees by department, division, and group. The counts displayed on this screen includes International Fellows, Temporary Hourly, employees on Leave Of Absence, as well as contractors, consultants and tenants assigned to this particular department number.
To list everyone in the division for "Information Systems," for example, just click the link corresponding to this division.
At the bottom of each page is a link labeled [Companies] which summarizes all companies in this issue of the White Pages. The counts displayed on this screen includes International Fellows, Temporary Hourly, employees on Leave Of Absence, as well as contractors, consultants and tenants assigned to this particular company.
To list everyone in company "Discern Communications," for example, just click the link corresponding to this company.
The "Contact Name" for each company is the person responsible for keeping the White Pages current. If you are an SRI employee and discover something wrong with your information, then you can correct it yourself using Self Service. For all other cases, you should bring this to the attention of the person responsible for your company.