Improve name searching on Students
Issue #1146
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Principally this is motivated by the need to reconcile the students list to the names independently collected in the Exams system.
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Implementation (open to discussion) is as follows:
– if Given Name and/or Family Name is entered into search window without wild card, an exact match search is performed.
If either given name or Family Name contains a * , then this triggers a fuzzy search.
The search will then match using
If a fuzzy search is used, the results are forced into a search order showing the ‘best’ matches first; e.g. exact matches, then like, then swap, then soundex