FellowshipOne is designed to help you quickly find and care for people using several powerful search options. Depending on what information you have, you can use a variety of search tools to locate individual records and take action from the results.
Available Search Options
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People Search – Always available in the upper-right corner of FellowshipOne. Enter a name or partial name and press Enter.
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Advanced Search – Go to People > Search > Find a Person. Use when you don’t know the exact spelling of a name or want to search by other details like address, communication values, or status.
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People Query – Go to People > Search > People Query. Useful for filtering people by involvement, demographics, requirements, and more.
Using People Search
The People Search field is accessible from any screen in FellowshipOne. It lets you quickly pull up records using partial names. Unless specific formatting is used, FellowshipOne will return records where the first name, goes-by name, or last name begins with the text you enter.
Search by First or Goes-By Name
To search by first or goes-by name only, type a comma before the name:
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Example:
,allenor, allen
Search by Last Name
To search by last name only, type a comma after the name:
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Example:
allen,
Hyphenated Names and Names with Spaces
Searching for names like Jane Smith-Jones may not return results when searching by "Jones" because the system looks for names that begin with what you enter. Instead:
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Search for the first part of the name:
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Use curly braces to search by name content:
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Example:
jane {jones}or{jones}, jane
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This also works for names with spaces:
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Example:
{betty s} wardorward, {b sue} -
Example:
mar {de la}or{de la}, mar
You can also use the % symbol to connect names:
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Example:
Mary%Annwill match "Mary Ann"
Other Search Examples
| Search String | Description | Example Results |
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, sha |
First or goes-by names starting with “sha” | Shannon Smith, Shane Miller |
har, |
Last names starting with “har” | George Harrison, Curtis Harris |
jon |
Any name starting with “jon” | Jonathan Smith, Kerry Jones |
cur har |
First/goes-by starts with “cur” AND last name with “har” | Curtis Harris |
bus, geo w |
First/goes-by “geo” with middle name “w”, last name with “bus” | George W. Bush |
,ma j |
First/goes-by starts with “ma” and middle name with “j” | Mary J. Smith |
,{ma j} |
Two-part first/goes-by name: “ma” and “j” | Mary Jane Brown |
{de la}, g |
First/goes-by starts with “g”, last name has “de la” | Gordon De La Cruz |
{-bet} |
Second part of a hyphenated name | Mary-Beth Johnson |
Using Advanced Search
Go to People > Search > Find a Person to use Advanced Search. You can search by:
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Name
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Address
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Communication details
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Individual attributes
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Status
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Member/Envelope number
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Date of birth
Click More search options to expand the search form for more filters.
Note: The "Include inactive" checkbox is selected by default. Deselect it if you want to search only for active records.
Advanced Search checks all address and communication values from both individual and household records. Results will always display the primary household address and home phone, even if the search matched on another type.
Tip: Use curly braces { } around your search terms to search for fields that contain your input, not just those that begin with it.
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