{% extends BASE_TEMPLATE %} {% load staticfiles %} {% load materializecss %} {% block head-title %}{{ title }}{% endblock %} {% block main %} {% endblock %} {% block menu %}
  • Home
  • {% endblock %} {% block content %}

    Help With Searching for Parts

    You can use free-form searching to find parts based upon a part’s part number, synopsis, primary manufacturer’s name or primary manufacturer’s part number (MPN). Terms that represents these elements may be mixed and matched in your search expression.

    Contents

    Searching by Part Number

    If you enter a part number as a search term then to be recognized as a part number, it must at least include the part class number and the item number. It may optionally include the number item variation.

    For example, both 102-00033-04 and 102-000033 are valid part number search terms. This example assumes that your organization uses 5 digits for its item number.

    Searching Free-form

    When entering a free-form search expression, the special characters that are used by IndaBOM to display units of measure need to be represented as standard text characters in your search term:

    Part Class Filtering

    You can narrow your search to a specific class of parts by first selecting a part class.

    For example, to search for all capacitors whose capacitance is 10µF, you would first select the capacitor part class, then enter 10uF as the search term.

    Matches will be made against partial words as well, for example yel will match all parts that contain the word “yellow” or “Yellow” or “yell” and so-on.

    Searching With Multiple Terms

    If your search expression is composed of multiple terms, then each search term is OR’ed, meaning that the search results will list all of the parts that match at least one of the terms of your search expression.

    For example, if your search term is 270Ohms 5% 0805 then your search will list all parts that contain “270Ω ” or the “5%” or “0805”.

    White space, comprised of any number of spaces or tabs, separates your search terms. If you have a term that is composed of multiple words and you want these words to be treated as a single term then they should be put in quotes, for example “Big Company Inc.” will be treated as single term whereas Big Company Inc. will be treated as three separate terms.

    Given how white space is interpreted, you should not have whitespace between a value and the associated units of measure. In other words, want to search for parts that contain “10V”, then your search term should be 10V or “10V” as opposed to 10 V. If you type 10 V then the 10 and the V will be treated as separate search terms and the search will match all parts that contain “10” and “V”, which is probably not what you want!

    {% endblock %}