Ok, I got a 30 day test drive of Electrical to see if it will meet our needs. Looks like there are a lot of parts we use that are not in the data base. I'll see how hard/easy it is to include them but when searching the data base this seems weird to me. There is a searc field called reference: but no coulmns of the data base called "reference" It seems to search on the Part column but then why didn't they just call it "Part"?
"Reference" does indeed search on the "Part" field.
It's possible that they have different names due to the original add-in "Elecworks" (which SW bought & turned into SW Electrical) being written in French.
Be sure to always add any parts you create to the "USER" library, or they may be lost when updating the database.