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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Accessing the validity file
Following are the ways you can access the validity file.
- Access Validity from a menu
- Click Tailoring > Tailoring Tools > Data Validation. The Validity Table Specifications form opens.
- Click Search. A list of validity maintenance records opens.
- Access Validity through Database Manager
- Click Tailoring > Database Manager.
- Type validity in the Form field, and then click Search. A list of the validity form records in your database opens.
- Double-click a validity Format Name record, and then click Search. The Validity Table Specifications form opens.
- Click Search. A list of data validation records opens.
- Access Validity from the command line
- Click Command in the System Administrator’s home menu.
- Type
validityin the command line. - Press Enter. The Validity Table Specifications form opens.
- Type a field name or a file name in the form, and then click Search. The requested form opens.
Related concepts
Data validation
Deleting validity record components
Invalid application names
Invalid files and form names
Invalid field names
Printing validity definitions
Invoking validity table processing
Look-up processing
