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Your Saved Searches

The best way to find and get updates on new opportunities before your competition is to create a saved search and get email updates automatically. Saved searches can also be used to track your competition and see what they are working on.

Every Network subscriber has a Default Saved Search initially set up in the system that includes all projects in your subscription geography for the past 30 days. In order to customize the search so that you receive projects that more specifically fit your needs, you can edit your Default Saved Search criteria and save your changes. You can add these saved searches to your Project Dashboard.

• If you are not interested in seeing everything, you can filter out certain geography or project types.
• If you intend to sign in weekly or to simply show projects since you have last signed in, you can change the date range of the search to show projects only reported within the last week.
• You can have the Network run your search daily and notify you by email when projects matching your search criteria are available by changing the Automated Notifications of the search.

Although you can not delete or rename this Default Saved Search, If you have Plus or Platinum level service, you can create an unlimited number of additional searches and save them with your own names. You can have separate searches for each of your sales areas, or multiple searches which target different business opportunities.

Online Tutorial: How to create a saved search»

• Build a project search and click the Save As button.

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• Use the Saved search wizard

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• Use an existing search as a template.
  1. On the Project Search page, select a search from the Saved searches dropdown
  2. Edit the criteria as needed.
  3. Click Save As.
  4. Type in a new name for the Saved Search.
  5. Click Save.
     
     

Run a Saved Search

From the Saved Searches page

1. Click the Saved searches link in the Related links box on the left side of the page,

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Click the Folders tab and locate the search in your Saved Searches folder.
2. Select the radio button beside the search you wish to run
3. Click the Run search button.

From the Projects search page.

1. Click the Projects tab.
2. Select the search from the Saved searches dropdown.



3. Click the Go button to run the search

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In the Show projects section:
• Click All to retrieve a list of all reports that match the criteria in your saved search. (This is the same as clicking the Go button.)
• Click the New/updated button to retrieve a list of all new and updated projects matching your saved search criteria that have been added to or changed in the McGraw-Hill Construction Network database since you last logged in.
• Click the w/plans button to retrieve a list of only the projects matching your saved search criteria for which the McGraw-Hill Construction Network has plans and/or specifications.

Edit a Saved Search

From the Saved Searches page

1. Click the Saved searches link in the Related links box on the left side of the page,

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Click the Folders tab and locate the search in your Saved Searches folder.
2. Select the radio button beside the search you wish to edit and click the Edit button
3. Edit the criteria as needed.
4. Click Save As.
5. The search's name appears in the Saved search name field.
6. Click Save to overwrite the Saved search, or choose a new name and click Save.

From the Projects search page.

1. Click the Projects tab.
2. Select the search from the Saved searches dropdown
3. Edit the criteria as needed.
4. Click Save As.
5. The search's name appears in the Saved search name field.
6. Click Save to overwrite the Saved search, or choose a new name and click Save.

Delete a Saved Search

From the Saved Searches page

1. Click the Saved searches link in the Related links box on the left side of the page,

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Click the Folders tab and locate the search in your Saved Searches folder.
2. Select the radio button beside the search you wish to delete.
3. Click the Delete button.

From the Projects search page

1. Click the Projects tab.
2. Select the search from the Saved searches dropdown.
3. Click the Delete button.