Searching for Event Attendees and Speakers by Furigana
End users can search for attendees and speakers by their furigana, enabling them to quickly identify the correct attendees and speakers to add to an event. Furigana (振り仮名) is a Japanese reading aid that uses smaller syllabic characters alongside kanji or other characters to indicate proper pronunciation.
Who can use this feature?
- End Users -
- Searching by Furigana
- Users require an Events Management License
Configuring Searching by Furigana for
End Users
To configure this feature:
- Ensure Configuring Events Management is complete.
- Navigate to Admin > Users & Groups > Permission Sets.
- Select the appropriate permission set.
- Select the Objects tab.
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Grant the following permissions:
Object
Object Permission
Object Types
Fields
Field Permission
account__v
R n/a furigana__v Read child_account__v
R n/a - parent_furigana__v
- parent_child_furigana__v
- child_furigana__v
Read em_speaker__v
R n/a furigana__v Read em_event_speaker__v
RE n/a furigana__v Edit em_attendee__v
RE
n/a
furigana__v Edit
- Navigate to Admin > Configuration > Objects > account__v > Layouts.
- Place the furigana__v field on the appropriate layouts.
Searching by Furigana as
End Users
Searching by furigana is supported in the following locations within Events Management:
- Attendee Search, including when child accounts are enabled
- Searching for attendees outside of the user’s territory
- Searching for event speakers to add to an event
- Searching for attendees in the Digital Sign-in Sheet
- Searching for attendees using QR Sign-in
Furigana search results will match all formats, including Hiragana, full-width Katakana, and half-width Katakana.
Sorting by Furigana
The following lists of attendee and speaker names are automatically sorted first by furigana, then by Formatted Name.
- Viewing the list of an event’s attendees and speakers
- Attendee lists for QR Code® or digital sign-in sheets
- Attendees in the Event Sign-In Summary report
Users can search and sort parent and child accounts by furigana if child accounts are enabled.
Using Furigana Search with CJK Optimized Object Search Enabled
When the Enable CJK Optimized Object Search Vault platform search option is enabled, searching on the Browser platform differs from the standard Latin-based search due to character-level tokenization. This means that search matches in two ways simultaneously:
- Starts-With Match – The search term matches the beginning of a value
- Contains Match – The search term matches when it appears anywhere in the value
For example, searching たなか using Furigana returns the following records:
- たなかいちろう – Due to matching via a Starts-With Match
- さとしたなかいちろう – Due to matching via a Contains Match
