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
Move a Global List to a client
To move a global list into client side memory, you call a routine called apm.global.initer.
This routine accepts two parameters:
- An array containing the name of the lists that you want.
- A keyword, either create or refresh.
When apm.global.initer is invoked with the refresh parameter, it collects the newest version of its list from the server, whether that list already exists in the client’s memory space. If invoked with the create parameter, it collects a list from the server only if a copy does not already exist.
If you are programming in RAD, you can invoke apm.global.initer directly from your code. If you are using the Global Initer to fill combo boxes for display on a form, you can invoke the Global Initer as a subroutine using Format Control for the format in question.
Related concepts
Global lists
Lister
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
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
