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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Objects
Objects are a base set of definitions that determine behavior of records and set the definitions and governing rules. Objects correspond one-to-one with database dictionary (dbdict) records in Service Manager. If a table does not have a dedicated Object record, the Document Engine applies the settings in the DEFAULT Object. All Objects should have list and default States defined. If not otherwise supplied, the default States are db.browse, db.list, db.search, and db.view.
Note Do not modify or delete the DEFAULT Object Record as doing so will cause unpredictable results.
The Object record sets up the definitions and governing rules for the behavior of the table within the Document Engine. For example these may include:
- The application used to create the users profile within this Object that determines what actions this user may take against any record of the table.
- The State records used in specific circumstances (see States for more details).
- The category, phase, and paging file names for the Object.
- The name of the number record to be used for this Object.
- How locking is to be used by this Object.
- Setup of revisions for records in the table.
- Which variables should be available to processes that run against this Object.
- Which global lists should always be available when using this Object.
- Use of activity records.
- How alerts are processed against this Object.
- How approvals are processed for this Object.
- Settings for the work queues.
- Ability to set up personal or global views and default templates.
- Notifications on add / update / delete of a record in this Object.
- Ability to configure additional search choices against this Object.
To view a list of the out-of-box Objects, click Search from the Object Definition form.
To view a list of the fields and field descriptions for the Object definitions see Object Definition form and fields.
