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# What is a Persistent Search?

## In Clarity, budget managers have the ability to combine multiple account patterns with a persistent search.

Since every account number has a pattern (i.e. all athletic departments may start with '56-023'), we developed Clarity with pattern matching in mind. 

Clarity allows you to combine as many patterns as you wish to see, and then combine those patterns by adding each to a persistent search. During the initial setup, *FundFive* will work with institutions to define the account patterns used in Colleague. For example, the Persistent Search fields below mimic an account pattern as follows:

- F: Fund
- P: Purpose
- V: Vocation
- O: Object
- U: Unit

![search\_accounts](https://kb.fundfive.com/hs-fs/hubfs/search_accounts.png?width=377&name=search_accounts.png)  
Once you have filtered down the accounts and level of detail needed, be sure to use the [Saved Reports](https://kb.fundfive.com/knowledge/saved-reports?hsLang=en) feature. 

 

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