Working with Search Results

The search results show all customers, vendors, and contacts that match the caller's number, along with their document history in an expandable tree view.

Where Results Appear

The Phone Number Search Results page opens automatically based on the following situations:

Situation

Behavior

Exactly one match found

The customer, vendor, or contact card opens directly — without the results page.

Multiple matches found

The results page with all matches displayed as a tree view is shown.

No exact matches, similar matches found

The results page with suggestions displayed as a tree view is shown.

No matches

An informational message "No phone number was found" is displayed.

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Structure of the Tree View

Results are organized in three levels:

Level

Content

Display

0 — Entity

Customer, vendor, or contact

Bold, with phone number and company name

1 — Document category

Document type with count and total amount

e.g. Invoices (3) — CHF 12,450.00

2 — Individual document

Single document with date and amount

e.g. SI-00123 — 01/12/2025 — CHF 4,150.00

Categories without documents are not shown. Which document types appear depends on the configuration on the Phone Lookup Setup page.

Note: The tree view starts fully collapsed. Click on an entity to expand its related document categories.

Clicking the No. column of a row navigates you directly to the corresponding record in Business Central:

Level

Action on Click

Level 0 — Entity

Opens the customer, vendor, or contact card.

Level 1 — Document category

No drill-down — category rows are not clickable.

Level 2 — Individual document

Opens the respective document (e.g. sales order, invoice).

Cross-Company Navigation

If results contain records from other companies, the Company Name column shows the source company. Clicking on the record opens it directly in the correct company via a hyperlink.

Note: To access records in other companies, the user must have the appropriate access rights in that company.

Refresh Results

On the results page, select the Refresh Data action to rebuild the tree view based on the current data.