Finding a specific item in the Site Manager account is not a difficult thing to do. Even if you say that your directory contains thousands or millions of items, you can still manage to find the one that you are looking for in a matter of seconds. That is no exaggeration! With the help of the search feature in each module, you can directly type the name of the item that you want to find. You can also search to display only those items created by a particular Member, or those that belong to a particular level (e.g., Showcase), category (e.g., Health), etc. It’s like you are filtering or refining the long list of item records.

To find a specific posting, do the following:

1. In the left navigation panel, click on the item type under Modules where you think the item falls under (e.g., Listings, Events, Articles, etc.). After doing this, a page will appear like the one shown below:

   

2. Click on the Search sub-menu on the top of this page. After doing this, a form will appear like the one shown below:

   

   The forms that you use to search for a listing, event, article, banner, classified, gallery, and promotion are unlike. Each uses its own set of fields (e.g., Listing Template, Listing Level, Category, etc.). For the sake of this discussion, we used the form in searching a listing. Please take note that the steps in this procedure may vary but even so, the idea remains the same.

3. In the Listing Title box, type the name of the listing that you want to find. You need not fill out every field in the form. The search function will work even if you provide only the Listing Title. But if your purpose of doing the search is to filter the listing records, then you can supply the Account, Listing Level, Listing Template, Category, Country, State, City, Postal Code, Status, Expiration, and Promotional Code depending on what you want to see in the list.

   When confirming or activating listing/s, the Site Manager selects Pending in the Status dropdown list. Doing this enables him/her to see those listings that have not been activated yet.

4. Click on the Search button.

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