You can search for events on personal and public calendars using an event’s title, description, specific date ranges, event types (i.e., personal vs. course events), or by priority.
When you search, you can use wildcards in the Search For field to help when you don’t have the complete title for an event. The following chart describes supported search wildcards and their usage.
Wildcards supported when you search the calendar
| Wildcard Character | Effect on Search | Description |
|---|---|---|
|
% |
any number of any character |
Calendar uses this implicitly in every search. Searching for day is equivalent to searching for %day%, %day or day%. Example Searching for %day% returns all events where the title or description contains a word with the sequence of characters “day”: daydream, birthday, holidays, etc. |
|
[ ] |
or/ranges |
Use this with characters between the brackets. You don’t need to separate characters with commas inside the brackets. Example Searching for [CK]ath[ae]rine returns events where the title or description contains Catharine or Katharine or Catherine or Katherine. |
|
^ |
not |
Use this before a single character to exclude words from the search. Example Searching for base[^b] returns events where the title or description contain the sequence of characters but is not followed by the letter b. E.g., databases, base, basement, etc. are included in the results, but baseball, baseboard are not. |
|
_ |
one of any character |
Use this to search for any single character followed by, or preceded by, a specific string of characters. Example Searching for _ob returns all events where the title or description contain words with a three letter sequence ending in ob. E.g., Robert, Bob, knob, etc. are included in the results, but obstacle, obtuse, etc. would be excluded. |
From the search results you can view events, edit or delete events depending on permissions and whether you created the event.