At the top of every Synovia screen is a Search box, in the site banner. Synovia's Search feature offers even more information than Silverlining's did: It provides group, vehicle, location, inventory, user, itinerary, route, and student data. In addition to searching for names, you can search for object properties such as VINs, phone numbers, ESNs, and itinerary numbers.

If you perform an advanced search, you can also search for entity properties. For details, see the section "Performing an Advanced Search," later in this article.



To perform a search, follow these steps:


  1. Type your search criteria in the Search box.
    Note: The search is by default a Contains type, which means that if the letters or numbers you enter are anywhere within an item, it will be included in the results. You don't need to use any wildcard characters.
  2. Press Enter.
     
    The Search Results screen will appear and display how many results there are in each category, such as Groups (0), Vehicles (61), Landmarks (31), Schools (24), Yards (0), Inventory (524), Users (0), Itineraries (3), Routes (9), and Students (1) in the example below.
     
     
  3. Click the tab with the category you want.
     
    The results in that category will be displayed.
     
     
    The icons on the left of each row open up various screens with the found item's data. Here are the screens that open from each category's options:
     
    Category/Tab
    		Icon
    		Screen
    GroupsFleet Tracking, watching the group live

    		Edit Group
    VehiclesFleet Tracking, watching the vehicle live

    		Vehicle History, with the vehicle already selected

    		Edit Vehicle
    LandmarksMap Nearby, with the landmark's address selected

    		Edit Location
    SchoolsMap Nearby, with the school's address selected

    		Edit Location
    YardsMap Nearby, with the yard's address selected

    		Edit Location
    InventoryFleet Tracking, watching the vehicle in which the LMU is installed live
    Note: If the device isn't currently installed in a vehicle (such as one of the spares Synovia provides or one that is being RMA'ed), this icon will be disabled.

    		Edit Inventory
    UsersEdit User
    ItinerariesPlanned vs. Actual by Stop, with the itinerary's PvA data mapped for the day

    		Substitutions, displaying only the routes and tiers for that itinerary

    		Route Monitor, displaying the live route data for the itinerary

    		Itinerary Details, displaying the routes and tiers in the itinerary, assigned school, current vehicle, when the most-recent tier was supposed to begin and end, and its status
    RoutesPlanned vs. Actual by Stop, with the route's PvA data mapped for the day

    		Substitutions, displaying the routes and tiers for the entire itinerary the route is part of

    		Route Monitor, displaying the live data for the route

    		Route Details, displaying the route's tiers, assigned school, current vehicle, when the most-recent tier was supposed to begin and end, and its status
    StudentsStudent Schedule, with the student's assigned bus route, stop, and school, plus bus stop times and the current ETA for the bus

    		Student Details

    		Rider History, with the student already selected
     
  4. Click the icon of the screen with the information you need.


Performing an Advanced Search


To perform an advanced search, follow these steps:


  1. Type any text in the Search box.
    Note: Your search criteria won't carry over to the Advanced Search screen.
  2. Press Enter.
     
    The Search Results screen will appear. 
      
  3. Click  at the top right.
     
    The Advanced Search screen will appear.
     
     
  4. Click the Type drop-down arrow and select the category in which the entity property fits, such as Vehicle.
    Note: These types correspond to the ones on the tabs in the standard search results.
    The Property drop-down list will become populated with only entity properties that apply to the category you selected.
     
  5. Click the Property drop-down arrow and select an entity property, or All if your search could match more than one.
     
  6. Type your search criteria in the Search Term box.
    Note: The search is by default a Contains type, which means that if the letters or numbers you enter are anywhere within an item, it will be included in the results. You don't need to use any wildcard characters.
  7. Click Search.
     
    The search results will appear in a grid, with the same icon options for the category as delineated in the table after step 3 in the preceding section.
     
     
  8. Click the icon of the screen with the information you need.