Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
| Search for | Example | Results |
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
| Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Base functions in se.list.engine
| Display Action | Description |
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| exit (or back) | Returns to the search (or calling) form. |
| inbox.save / inbox | Prompts the user to save the current query as a new view. |
| count | Performs standard count functionality and displays the total record count. |
| refresh | Refreshes the list using the current query. |
| big.green | Completely exits the current module. “Big Green Arrow” |
| Prints the list of records displayed. | |
| views | When selected, the system presents to the user a list of alternate forms in which to display the current record. |
| export/unload | Standard Service Manager export/unload functionality (multiple records). |
| massadd | Adds a new set of records that exactly duplicates an existing set of records except that new set of records will have a unique key value updated with new data. At the end of the processing there will be twice as many records in the table. |
| massupdate | Provides the same updates to a set of specified fields in a list of records. |
| massdelete | Deletes a specified set of records from a table. |
