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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Setting Dynamic View Dependencies properties
You can set up a number of properties for dynamic evaluation using the Properties window of Forms Designer. For example, the Caption property that you set for a Label specifies the text to display on the screen. Under the “Caption” property there is a property named “Caption Condition.” This associated property enables you to specify a condition evaluated dynamically to compute a caption for the label. These two properties are paired for the purpose of DVD conditions. There are several other property pairings as well.
Several Forms Designer controls have “property” and “property condition” pairs. In each case, you can specify a special conditional statement that specifies the run-time value for the property.
DVD conditional property pairings and examples of their supported types of controls are listed in the following table.
| Property | Property Condition | Examples of supported control types |
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| Caption | Caption Condition | Button, Check Box, Combo Box, Label, Marquee, Radio Button, Text, and Text Area |
| Value List | Value List Condition | Combo Box |
| Display List | Display List Condition | Combo Box |
| Visible | Visible Condition | Button, Check Box, Combo Box, Label, Marquee, Radio Button, Text, and Text Area |
| Foreground Color | Foreground Color Condition | Label |
| Background Color | Background Color Condition | Label |
| Bold | Bold Condition | Label |
| Italic | Italic Condition | Label |
| Font Increase | Font Increase Condition | Label |
| Read-Only | Read-Only Condition | Check Box, Combo Box, Radio Button, Text, and Text Area |
| Button ID | Button ID Condition | Button |
| Image File | Image Condition | Button |
| - | Selected Condition | Check Box |
| Mandatory | Mandatory Condition | Combo Box, Radio Button, Text, and Text Area |
| Enabled | Enabled Condition | Button |
Related concepts
Dynamic View Dependencies
Field comparisons
Field value matching
Dynamic functions
Related tasks
Use field comparisons
Use dynamic functions
Use field value matching
