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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Revision control
Revision control provides developers and administrators with a means of reverting to a previous version of a file or form. If during the process of creating or modifying forms you find an error, revision control returns a working version of your file or form.
Revision control allows a developer to:
- Create a snapshot of a record
- Add SCR information and comments to the snapshot
- Replace the current version of the record with a working version of the record at any time.
Note: Every revision takes up as much disk space as the original record plus a few bytes for comments.
Use revision control in conjunction with the development auditing to track, record, and save changes to your system. The development auditing utility provides a record of the changes to ensure that you load the correct version when you move to production, whereas revision control documents these changes and enables you to create working snapshots.
Service Manager handles revisions as part of the Document Engine. Revisions are available in all utilities that use the Document Engine as base code, including Database Manager, Format Control, Link Editor, Forms Designer, the RAD Editor, and others.
The system stores revisions in a separate file whose name is specified in either the object record for the file or in the datadict record. The system creates this revision file via an option on the Data Policy or the object screen. Administrators specify the maximum number of revisions to store for each record in a file. If you do not specify a number, an unlimited number is stored.
Administrators need to determine in advance in which files to track revisions and then do a minor setup to establish them. Administrators also need to purge revisions prior to migrating to a production system.
Related concepts
Environment configuration
Applying customizations to the production environment
Development auditing
Creating revisions
Data Policy and encryption
Related tasks
Create a baseline revision
Create a single revision
Revert to a previous revision
Search for revisions
Purge revisions
