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
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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
Creating displayscreen records
Your system contains a number of displayscreen records that have been predefined in the RAD code. Some of these records bind their options to a specific form, while others bind the options to local variables for use with multiple forms. If you edit an option in a displayscreen record used by more than one form, every form that uses that Screen ID is affected. If you need option combinations that do not exist in the displayscreen records provided with the standard system and do not wish to edit any of the existing Screen IDs, you must create your own unique displayscreen record. You might choose to do this when:
- Writing custom RAD applications
- Creating script forms
Displayscreen records are created and hard-coded into RAD applications, which search for the appropriate Screen ID when called.
- RAD programmers who write custom applications for their enterprise can create new displayscreen records.
- Non-RAD licensee's can add display screens to support specific scripts because the display screen name is specified within the script record and is not hard coded in RAD.
Related concepts
Menus
Display application
Displayoptions
Selecting display options
Related tasks
