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.
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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". |
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. |
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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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- Look-up processing
- Format Control processes
- Displayoptions
- Display value summary details
- Display range summary details
- Create validity table definitions
- Add field level definitions
- Add value definitions
- Add range definitions
- Validate the validity definitions
- Delete an entire validity record
- Delete a single value or range definition
- Delete value or range definitions from a table
- Print a detailed report of an entire validity record
- Validate fields during record processing
- Create a validity lookup option in Format Control
- Call validate.fields from Format Control
Create a validity lookup option in Format Control
Access the Format Control record for the form in which you want to invoke validity table processing. If a record does not already exist, you must create one. For information on how to access and use Format Control, see the related topics.
- Click Tailoring > Format Control.
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Type a Name and then click Search.
Service Manager opens a list of Format Control records.
- Click the record you want to update to open it.
- Click More or the More Actions icon and choose Additional Options, or click Addl Options in the form.
- Enter the following field values:
Field Value Condition for Option true Option Validity Lookup Application Application validate.fields Error Message The original record is displayed.
Note: This is the recommended message. If this field is left blank, you will receive an unfriendly error message when you return to the data record.Reset on Return true - Enter the applicable parameters for validate.fields in the Name and Value fields using the information from the following table:
Field Value name cursor.field.name() second.file $file cond.input val("true", 4)
Note: The data passed to the Boolean parameter must be a type 4 (hence the VAL() statement for the Value). As an alternative, a $variable could be defined in the initialization expressions (for example $flag=true) and then passed to the subroutine. - Click Add to add a new Format Control record.
- Click Save to save your updates.
Related concepts
Data validation
Format Control processes
Format Control
Accessing Format Control
Using expressions in Format Control
Displayoptions
Related tasks
Display value summary details
Display range summary details
Create validity table definitionsAdd field-level definitions
Add value definitions
Add range definitions
Validate the validity definitions
Delete an entire validity record
Delete a single value or range definition
Delete value or range definitions from a table
Print a detailed report of an entire validity record
Validate fields during record processing
Call validate.fields from Format Control
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