Business Record View

The Thomson Innovation Record View integrates data from numerous sources.  The terms of your subscription determine which of these data sources are available on your Record View.

This chapter addresses the following topics.

Open a business record from either a result set or a work file.  The business Record View displays.

Finding Your Way Around

The business Record View screen is shown below.

Business Record View Features

  1. The Title Bar

  2. The Jump To menu

  3. The Record View Tool Bar

  4. The breadcrumb navigation tool

  5. The Record View Help link

  6. The Close Record Viewer link

  7. The Hide Highlighting Panel button

  8. The Record View footer

  9. The Highlighting panel

  10. The Record panel

The Record View Tool Bar

Add to Work File

Use the Add to Work File panel, shown below, to specify the existing work file to which you wish to add the record.  See Work Files for details.

Add to Marked List

Click to add the selected records to your marked list.

See Marked List for details.

Highlighting

Open the Highlighting settings panel to add or modify term highlighting in your record.

See Highlighting for details.

The Highlighting settings panel is shown below.

Print

Press Print to generate a printer-friendly version of the record.  A printer-friendly version is shown below.

Press Print on the printer-friendly version to select a printer.  Press Close to close without saving.

The Jump To Menu

Use the Jump To menu to navigate quickly to specific sections of a record.

Available destinations vary according to what type of data you are viewing.  The table below details which destinations are available in each data type.

Data Type

Available Jump To Destination

Company

Company, Industry, Corporate Hierarchy, Financials, Ownership, Citations, Record Info

Market

Market Research, Record Details

Product

(none)

News

Company, Market, Products

Research

Company, Market, Products, News, Research

 

The Hide Highlighting Panel Button

The highlighting panel is a visual guide to your highlighting results.  If you have disabled highlighting in your Preferences, the highlighting panel is not visible, and the Hide highlighting panel button has no effect.  See the Highlighting chapter for details.

The Hide highlighting panel button is visible when the highlighting panel is displayed.  Press it to hide the highlighting panel, and provide more screen width for the record.

Below, the Record View is shown with the highlighting panel hidden.

 

The Show highlighting panel button is visible when the highlighting panel is hidden.  Press it to display the highlighting panel.

The Record Panel

The record view panel is shown below.

 

Click the question mark to the left of any field name to get help for that particular field.

Some of the terms in the record panel are presented as hyperlinks.  Use these links to gain instant access to related information.  Links in the Business Record, broken down by data type, are listed below.

 

Data Type

Hyperlinks in Record View

Company

Company Name, Website

Market

(none)

Product

Hyperlinks in Text field

News

(none)

Research

Email, State (current status)

 

See Business Fields for a complete description of all fields.

The Highlighting Panel

The highlighting panel is a graphic representation of the number of occurrences of your search terms in the record, and their location in the record.

The highlighting panel is hidden by default.  Press the Show Highlighting Panel button on the record view screen to display it.

The Hide highlighting panel button is visible when the highlighting panel is displayed.  Press it to hide the highlighting panel, and provide more screen width for the record.

Note that "Print background colors and images" must be enabled in your browser preferences in order for highlighting to print.  See your browser documentation for details.

See Highlighting for detailed information.