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When VSys One looks up people by their name, it searches three ways:
These options affect the last option and how VSys finds those similar names.
Generate the sound-alike/lookup name
This sets the algorithm which VSys uses to compare names to see if they are similar. VSys can use any of three methods here:
VSys One/GMS sound-alike |
A proprietary method which is very effective and is VSys One's default method. |
Soundex |
The industry-standard Soundex algorithm. |
Raw family/last name |
Uses just the first five bytes of the person's family name. This is normally only used for searching on Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic, or other names primarily composed of non-Western characters which VSys would not be able to compare for similarity. |
Generate lookup based on which name
This tells VSys which one of the three possible names for a person should be used when trying to find similar names. Normally this is left as the primary name, but if you're storing a non-Western name in the primary name field and the Western name in the alternate name fields, this lets you look up people based on similarity of the alternate or phonetic names.
Primary name |
The person's primary name is used for finding people based on similar names. |
Sounds like (phonetic) name |
The person's phonetic name is used. If the phonetic name for a person is blank, his/her primary name is used in its place. |
Alternate name |
The person's alternate name is used. If the alternate name for a person is blank, his/her primary name is used in its place. |
When looking up on family name, ignore these words at the beginning of the family name
In some cultures family names are commonly prefixed with an honorific, e.g. "el". This honorific is not always present, and so you may have to search for someone once with the honorific in place, then again without it if the first search was not fruitful. This becomes more complicated if more than one prefixed honorific is common. This list will exclude any checked values when searching for name similarity. For example, the family names "el Abdullah" and "Abdullah" would both match a search for "Abdullah" if "el" was checked on this list.
The names present on this list are defined on the Capitalization rules and name prefixes panel.
Changing any of the values on this panel requires running the Rebuild various lookup indices tool in the Administrator tools panel afterwards. If you don't, VSys One and GMS are not going to be able to properly lookup people already stored.