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.
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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". |
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. |
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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Create a simple number counter
The following example illustrates how to create a record called employee in the Sequential Number File to automatically increment employee numbers starting with 1.
- Access the Sequential number file.
- Create a new file. Type
employee
in the Class field for this example. - Type
0
in the Last Number field to begin incrementing from zero. - Type a short description for the number class.
For example: Employee ID number counter. - Type
1000
in the Reset Point field. - Type
1
for the Increment/Decrement field value.
Since the Decrement field was left blank, each number will increase by one. - Click Add.
The new sequential number record is added to the sequential number file.
Related concepts
Sequential number file
Sequential number setup
Related tasks
Access the sequential number file
Use decrement in sequential numbers
Use prefix and suffix in sequential numbers
Update a sequential number record
Delete a sequential number record