Searching for Specifications Using Quick Search and Query Builder

Finding product specifications in Erudus is easy with the powerful search tools available to all users. This guide will show you how to find the specifications you need using our Quick Search and Query Builder search tools.

Using Quick Search


Quick Search is a great tool if you know what product you are looking for. To access Quick Search just click the "Product Search" button at the top of the page after you log into Erudus.


You will then be presented with a search bar you can use to find the product specification you need. You can search for specifications using the following search parameters:

  • The Product's Name
  • The Inner or Outer GTIN of the Product
  • The Manufacturer's Product Code for the Product
  • The Erudus ID of the Product
  • The Wholesaler Product Code of the Product (if you are a user that is associated with a wholesaler account)

Users linked to a Wholesaler account will also have the option of limiting their search only to products that have a Wholesaler Product Code attached be using the "Wholesaler Range Only" checkbox underneath the search bar. Unticking this box will search all products in the Erudus data pool regardless of whether or not a Wholesaler product code is attached to a product.

Clicking the name of the product will take you to the product specification where you can review all of the information about the product by scrolling down the page and you can use the buttons at the top of the page to:

  • Download the specification as a PDF
  • Review the version history of the product and look at previous versions of the specification
  • Report an error on the specification to the manufacturer
  • Add the product to a list

Using the Query Builder


The more advanced search tool, the Query Builder, allows you to find products in the Erudus data pool based on parameters that you define. Every attribute on an Erudus specification can be used as a parameter for the search making this a very flexible tool to find products that meet the criteria you require quickly and easily.


To access the Query Builder, click on the "Product Search" button at the top of the screen and then above the Quick Search bar, click the "Query Builder" button to be taken to the Query Builder.


Below is an annotated screenshot of the Query Builder interface with some information on how to build and run a query

  1. You can use the green buttons to add rules and groups of rules to a query
  2. You can delete individual rules from a query using the delete button at the end of the row for the rule
  3. Use the Dropdown menu at the start of the rule to select the attribute you wish to use as a search parameter. Once an attribute has been set the other parameters for the rule will be editable.
  4. When using multiple rules for a query, you can choose And/Or logic to be applied to the search. Selecting "And" means that all rules in a query are applied to the search and all criteria must be met. Selecting "Or" means that each rule will be applied individually when the search is performed and and results are not reliant on the other rules
  5. Use the checkboxes to choose what datasets is returned for the products that show in the query. This allows you to get only the data that you need
  6. When you have built your query and chosen which datasets you wish to return, click here to run your query

Once you have run your query and you are presented with your results you can click on the name of a product to view the specification and you can use the buttons at the top of the results to save this query for later use if you think you will need to run it again in future or you can download the results of your query as a spreadsheet in a CSV file using the "Download CSV" button