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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XML views
Note: Views are available in the Windows client only.
The Administrator perspective contains these views that display data exchanged between the client and server.
| View name | What’s in this view? | Use this view to | Related capability word |
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| Detail Data | Displays all data in the records (in XML format) that populate the current form. For example, this view shows related query information, as well as RAD-defined variable values, associated displayoptions, and messages. | Trace or debug Service Manager transactions. | Requires the Debug capability word. |
| Detail Form | Displays the form fields (in XML format) in the current form. | Trace or debug Service Manager transactions, Dynamic View Dependencies (DVD), or display applications. | Requires the Debug capability word. |
| List Data | Displays all records (in XML format) that appear in the current record list. | Trace or debug Service Manager queries. | Requires the Debug capability word. |
| List Form | Displays the form fields (in XML format) for the current record list form. | Trace or debug Service Manager queries. | Requires the Debug capability word. |
| Last Request | Displays the XML-formatted action, modified data, and cursor position of the last request sent from the client to the server. | Trace or debug client/server communication. | Requires the Debug capability word. |
| Last Response | Displays the XML-formatted data of the last response sent from the server to the client. | Trace or debug client/server communication. | Requires the Debug capability word. |
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