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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Language overview
JavaScript is a scripting language which is different from programming languages like Java™, C++, or Visual Basic®. It is a smaller, dynamically typed, scripting language that offers programming tools with easy syntax and built-in functionality.
Unlike programming languages, scripting languages do not use compilers to create executable program code. Because JavaScript is an interpreted language, each time the script is executed, it is loaded into an interpreter that runs the code. The Compile button in the Script Library does not create an executable load module; it runs a syntax check to verify that the script is executable.
JavaScript can be either client-side, server-side, or core language. Core JavaScript is the base JavaScript language with client-side and server-side JavaScript as extensions. Server-side JavaScript is used for accessing and manipulating data and is the only one available within Service Manager.
