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
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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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- Display application
- Displayscreen definitions
- Display application option definitions
- Restricting access to display options
- Selecting display options
- Calling an application
- Custom RAD
- Creating displayscreen records
- Displayoption Database Dictionary keys
- Displayevent Database Dictionary keys
- Access display records
- Create a displayscreen record
- Create a displayoption record
- Define display conditions
- Enable the Merge Conflicted Updates function for customized user operations
Calling an application
Display panels allow the system administrator to set up a series of actions that otherwise would have to be hard-coded into each individual application. Among the added functionality is the ability to call separate applications from within the current application.
An example of this is calling the build.list application from a combo box on the problem.initial form.
The call to build.list recreates a list of viable subcategory, location, or other options, based on the information already appearing on the problem.initial form. When calling an application, several options are available, including threaded windows and scripting.
Related concepts
Display application
Displayoptions
Selecting display options
Example: Adding a URL link to a menu
Adding and changing the image icon for menu and toolbar items
Restricting access to display options
Related tasks
Access display records
Define display conditions
Access menu records
Create a displayscreen record
Create a displayoption record
Add or change the image icon for options menu and toolbar items
Define display conditions
Add a capability word
Related references
Displayevent database dictionary keys
Displayoption database dictionary keys
Common option icon names
