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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Create a database file for simple sequential numbers
Applies to User Roles:
System Administrator
To create a database file for simple sequential numbers:
- Click Tailoring > Forms Designer.
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Type employees in the form field, and click Search.
Service Manager opens the employees form.
- Click Create File in the More Actions menu.
- Type employees in the filename field.
- Click OK to create the new data file.
- Change the Employee ID field of the employee file to a number data type.
- Select the employee.id field with the cursor.
- Click Edit.
- Click number in the Type field menu.
Important: A data type of number is required for all simple sequential numbering.
Related tasks
Create simple sequential numbers
Create the form for simple sequential numbers
Create a Format Control record for simple sequential numbers
Open the number file
Add a numbered record to the database file for simple sequential numbers
