WorldShare Acquisitions release notes, May 9, 2026
Release Date: May 9, 2026
Introduction
This release of WorldShare Acquisitions provides an underlying database technology upgrade which will impact vendor searching syntax.
Recommended actions
For this release, we recommend that you review the following checklists and complete the relevant tasks so that you can adjust your policies and workflows and train your staff. These checklists identify updates that we have determined as significant for most institutions. We encourage you to review all of the items in the release notes to determine whether there are other items that might require additional action or follow up by your institution.
Administrative actions
These items require immediate action or decisions.
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None at this time. |
Follow-up actions
In an effort to keep your staff informed of new features and changes, you may also want to consider these items.
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Update staff and internal documentation to reflect new search syntax for vendors in Acquisitions. |
New features and enhancements
New search syntax for searching vendors
The underlying database technology is being updated for vendor management. Functionality will remain largely the same, but the search syntax will be updated. This will impact both searching for vendors under the "Vendors" section in the left-hand menu as well as when using the vendor autocomplete (e.g. when creating new orders or new invoices). This will save you time and effort by providing additional vendor searching options not available before.
This search syntax will include the following:
| Search Syntax | Behavior Changed or Same? | Behavior of Search | Example Search Term | Example Match |
| No quotes or asterisks around search terms. | Same | Will perform a "keyword" search on any word provided in any order. Will also match on words where the start of the word matches the search term. |
Pub Collin |
Collins Publishing |
| Quotes around search terms. | Changed | This will now perform an exact match search where the entire string must match something (e.g. vendor name) in the vendor record. | "Collins Publishing" | Collins Publishing |
| Asterisk at end of search term | Same | Will perform a "starts with" search, where the beginning of the search term must match. | Collins Pub* | Collins Publishing |
| Asterisk at beginning of search term | Changed | Will perform an "ends with" search, where the end of the search term must match. | *ollins Publishing | Collins Publishing |
| Asterisk at beginning and end of search | Same | Will perform a "contains" search, where search term(s) are found anywhere in vendor record. | *ollins Pub* | Collins Publishing |
Important links
Support website(s)
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