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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Alternatives to data maps
Data maps are an optional administration feature that you can use as part of the health and maintenance of your system to identify related records to purge or archive. In addition to data mapping, the following table shows other methods to purge and archive records.
| Feature | Description | Differences from data mapping |
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| Unload script utility | Unload records from multiple tables using saved queries. | No restrictions on record queries (data map queries must identify related records). Save multiple queries as one script record (data maps can support only one type of query for each record). List forms that you want to protect from purging (data maps can only purge records). |
| Entity relationship diagram definition (Erddef) | Define joins by entity relationships. | Define multiple joins (Each data map record can only define one join). Not integrated with the purge/archive function. Cascading deletion of related records (data mapping can only delete records as part of a purge process). |
Related topics
Data maps
Types of data maps
Exporting records
Importing records
Purging and archiving records
Unload script utility
Master data records
Add a data map record
Create data maps to related records
Delete a data map record
Update a data map record
View a data map record
