Learning Objectives


After completing this help guide, you’ll be able to:

  • Access the advanced search functionalities.
  • Use advanced search to filter and find records.

 

Any information that is stored in COMET can be searched for and accessed using the search functions available to you. 


PLEASE NOTE: The quick search bar at the top of the screen has recently been removed for club users


 

Advanced Search

  • As the name suggests, Advanced Search gives you control over the search parameters (e.g. age, nationality, etc.) to obtain more or less search results.
  • Advanced Search can be found from any of the modules from the left hand menu. It will be titled as “Search [module name]” e.g. Search Players.

 

Lets use players as an example.

 

  • Select Players from the left hand menu.
  • Select Search Players.

 

 

You will be navigated to the Advanced Search console. From here you will see a whole bunch of fields that you can enter text into - these are your search parameters.

 

The more information you input into these fields, the more refined your search is going to be. For example, if you were to put SMITH in the family name, you would only be searching for every player with a last name of SMITH.



PLEASE NOTE: COMET has added a new privacy feature. Now, when you're searching for persons outside of your club, you must enter both their last name and DOB to find them in the search



 

  • Input information into the search parameters.
    • You may leave these blank if you want to expand your search.
  • In the Active Registrations section at the bottom of the page, make sure to adjust the Status, Organisation and club fields accordingly.


In the Status field, enter what the registration status of the player is. Some common ones you may select are:

  • ENTERED
    • Player is pending confirmation to the club.
  • CONFIRMED
    • Player is a confirmed player to the club.
  • TERMINATED
    • Player registration to the club has finished.

 

If you are unsure of the status of the player, you should set this field to ALL.

 

 

In the Organisation field, this will be your Federation by default. If you want to search for a player within your Federation, then keep this as is, otherwise, select the magnifying glass to find and select the relevant Federation.

  • You will need to select "Show all organisations"


 

In the Club field, this will default to your club meaning that when you select the Search button, it will look for players that match your parameters within your club database. If you do not want to search your club, you should clear this field and/or replace it with another club using the magnifying glass.

 

  • Once you’re done. Select Search.

 


Tip: Did you know that you can use special characters to help narrow your search, such as players whose last name contains certain letters?


Lets use the surname of SMITH as an example. If you enter *SMI, you are specifying that you want to display all players with a family name that contains the letters S-M-I in that order. For example this could SMITH, or GOLDSMITH.


This also means that if SMITH is entered, only results that exactly match 'SMITH' will show. If there are any other characters, these will then not show in this search. For example, if there was a space accidentally entered to the end of a name, this will not show in a search - this is when adding * is helpful to search for a wider range of results.

 


Upon selecting this, a little pop-up window will appear showing you your search results. Did you know that you can actually filter this list as well?

 

By entering an ID, Name, Date or Birth, or club name in the respective columns, you can further filter your search.

 

 

  • Select the relevant player to be navigated to their dashboard.