A quick search facility is provided within the application. The quick search can be accessed from anywhere in the application, and allows a user to enter a reference number and search across all cases, participants, investigations and incidents. If the reference number entered matches the alternate identification for a participant, their participant information is automatically displayed. If the matching participant also has one or more related cases, investigations and incidents, the system returns a set of search results which includes both the participant record and the related records. Organizations can configure which participant roles are included in the quick search via a number of application property settings.