By using the Search Assitant you may search the database for certain messages.

Prerequisites

The Assistant is available once you booked certain options. Please contact your sales team for more information.

Functionality

The search assistant restricts your view on the amount of data by applying restrictions/conditions to your view. Therefore you will be guided by 7 steps. You may jump directly to a certain step by using the option in the Quickbar, or just navigate from step to step by the available buttons.

Step 1: Select Vehicles

You may chose between all vehicles or different Vehicle groups or vehicles, even combinations. Just tick the box in front of a vehicle or group, and click next.

Step 2: Select time period

You can select the time range to search for messages, by using the fields date (from-to) and time. There is a calendar available as well. Just press next to get to the next step.

Step 3: Limit by addresses

Please chose if you want to query the database for all addresses, or only for a restricted set of addresses. By this you could search for all messages at a certain address. You may select between addresses out of your address database, or type in a certain postal address to limit the query. So you could limit your search to addresses in a certain range around 12345 Berlin, as example. You could use this as well for finding all stops made by your vehicles at a certain customers address.

Please notice, this is not available if your YellowFox account is restricted by privacy rules.

Please click next.

Step 4: Limit by types of messages

You can select only using a few out of all message types. Please click next.

Step 5: Limit by state of ignition

You may limit the search result for messages where the ignition has a certain status, or even where the messages where caused by the ignitions status change. Please click next.

Step 6: Limit by telematic status

If there are more than one telemetic input available, you may want to restrict the result by this status. If you search for messages caused by a certain input, you can do this only for one input at the same time. Please click next.

Step 7: Limit by speed

If you want to see messages in your result only proceeding a certain speed level, you can do that in this step. Please click next.

Step 8: Result

You will receive a table containing all messes which meet your criteria given in the 7 steps above.

You may view or export them for further processing, as example. Please use the functions out of the Quickbar.

Quickbar Buttons:
Image Added	Show the selected positions on a map	Does exactly this
Image Added	Select position messages	Just mark / unmark positions for displaying them at the map
Image Added	Back	One step back
Image Added	Next	One step forward
Image Added	Delete / Reset	Reset the assistant and restart selecting your criteria
Image Added	Report profiles	Call a Report Profile
Image Added	Print / Export	Print or Export your results
Image Added	Display Settings	Adapt display settings
Image Added	Help	View this page here
Image Added	Quicklink	Make a Quicklink

With the Search Assistant you are able to proceed bulky searches by position messages.

QuickBar

navigation

The search assistant is divided into 8 steps.

The query in step 1 and 2 are mandatory to proceed the search. The following steps are optional. To get the result just click on step 8.

You can also use search profiles to save settings for future searches

Actions

Image Removed	map display	= show the selected positions on map
Image Removed	select positions	= select/ unselect positions to display them on map
Image Removed	previous	= One step back in the search
Image Removed	next	= One step forward in the search
Image Removed	reset	= reset the settings to default
Image Removed	report profiles	= open search profiles
Image Removed	export	= print/ export found position messages
Image Removed	open help	= open the help for this topic
Image Removed	QuickLink	= creates a Quicklink for this page

prerequisite

The Search Assistant is available if you got the option fleet management respectivley the tariff Business or Profi booked for the vehicle.

Step 1 till 7 - different requests

/1/ Select the car/s you want to search for.

click on "next"

/2/ Please set the date and time period in which you want to search for.

click on "next" to go to the next step

/3/ Please decide if you want to search for all addresses or if you want to restrict an address.

A Search for positions will show you when a object was at a specific location.

If you want to search by address you must enter the post address and the searching radius at the next step. With this function it it for example possible to search for objects which were in the near of 12345 Berlin.

The function "use address from address book" enables the search by vehicle position by a address from the address administration. For example you can search how long a vehicles with the YF-hardware was in the near of a specific customer (address must be added to the address book).

Please note that the search by position is not available if the data lock is active.

click on "next"

/4/ Select the types of messages you want to search for.

click on "next"

/5/ If you choose all messages or specific for telemetry messages you are now able divide the telemetry messages again.

click on "next"

/6/ At telemetry messages it is only possible to select one port how caused the message, please select one of them.

click on "next"

/7/ Now you will be asked if you want to search for messages where the vehicle's speed exceeded a particular value. Enter the value in case you want to search for it.

click on "next"

Step 8 - Search Result

You will now receive a search result list matching your search terms.

If you want to display the messages on a map use the buttons from the QuickBar.

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