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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Using menu buttons to run stored queries
Buttons that run stored queries from a menu must have a button ID defined in a menu record. Use the following values to run a stored query from a menu:
- Application: query.stored
- Parameter Name: text
- Parameter Value: <stored query name>
- Condition: true (or a condition statement that checks for a particular query group)
Related concepts
Stored queries
Using stored queries in display objects
Using stored queries to produce charts and marquees
Using stored queries in scripts
Menu option searches
Related tasks
Grant access to stored queries
Create stored queries from the Query Maintenance form
Add a stored query
Create stored queries from the Query Maintenance form
Update a stored query
Append stored queries
