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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- Global lists
- Lister
- Global initer considerations
- Returning a list to your client
- Configuring lists with Format Control
- Access a list record
- Bind a list to a form
- Build lists on startup
- Configure lists with Format Control
- Determine if a scheduler record exists
- Determine if the regen cycle is realistic
- Determine when a list was last regenerated
- Move a global list to a client
- Regenerate all lists
- Regenerate obsolete lists
- Start the server side component of the global initer
- See a complete list of all global lists in my system
- Verify lister status and configuration
- View changes to a list
Lister
To build a dynamic list, generate a list definition block. The background scheduler (lister) wakes up every sixty seconds to search for obsolete lists and uses list definition blocks to generate new lists, which are then stored in the list repository.
Once lister has built a list on the server, multiple clients can request and share the same list without each client having to build its own copy. This method of building lists improves system speed and helps server-side performance.
Note: Lister variables can be defined for scalar type fields only and not for array fields.
Related concepts
Global lists
Troubleshooting: lister
Global initer considerations
Returning a list to your client
Configuring lists with Format Control
Related tasks
Access a list record
Bind a list to a form
Build lists on startup
Configure lists with Format Control
Determine if a scheduler record exists
Determine if the regen cycle is realistic
Determine when a list was last regenerated
Move a Global List to a client
Regenerate all lists
Regenerate obsolete lists
Start the server side component of the global initer
See a complete list of all the global lists on my system
Verify lister status and configuration
View changes to a list
