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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- Queries
- Simple query expressions
- Complex query expressions
- Create a query using not in statements
- Create a query using an or statement or an and statement
- Use like queries to search for a string of characters
- Create a query using an or statement or an and statement
- Create a query using array fields
- Create a query using more than one field
- Perform IR Expert queries
- Use the equal to relational operator
- Use the greater than relational operator
- Use the less than relational operator
- Use the like relational operator
- Use the not symbol with logical or relational operators
- Use the starts with relational operator
- Create a query using a simple query expression
- Create a query using isin in statements
- Use the index function in a query
- Use the lng function in a query
- Use the tod function in a greater than or less than query
- Retrieving records by using the record list method
- Retrieving records by using the Query window method
- Stored queries
- Cross-table join query improvements
Use the like relational operator
Applies to User Roles:
System Administrator
Example: Retrieve all contact records that contain the letter e as the second letter of the last name.
In this example, we execute a like query where the full.name field is like ?e* and then displays a record list containing all matching records.
To use the like relational operator:
- Click System Administration > Base System Configuration > Contacts.
- Type
?e*in the Full Name field. - Press Enter.
- Click any record to view the details.
Note: This query contains two wildcard characters, which triggers Database Manager to automatically generate a like query.
A like query does not automatically generate a starts with query.
For example, to see all records that start with any character followed by e* with any number of characters following, type ?e\** in the last.name field.
The returned records include those where the last.name is like Ae*, he*e, fe*, Be*bcdefg, and so on.
Related topics
Like relational operator
Record retrieval
Relational operators
Wildcard characters
Retrieving records by using the record list method
The Database Manager utility
Retrieve all records in a table
Retrieve records within a range
