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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Table column control
Use this control to add a column to an existing table.
| Property | Usage |
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| Name |
(Optional) Specify a unique identifier for the object on the screen. This name is used by external applications, such as RAD, to dynamically change the properties of the object. |
| Caption | Specify a text caption for the object. |
| Input | Specify the database field or variable to associate with this control. |
| Field | In the case where the array specified in the input property is an array of structure, it specifies the field in the structure for this object. |
| Display List | Specify the values that appear in the drop-down list at run time. There must be a one–to–one correspondence between the values for Value List and for Display List. If the Display List is the only populated property, the display values are what were written to the database. |
| Read-Only | Always read-only. |
