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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Signature records
A signature for an Service Manager record is a numerical representation of the record. Any change to the contents of the record causes the signature of that record to change, based on the definitions in the signaturemake file.
You must create signature records for any record that you compare in the Differential Upgrade process. The signatures file contains signature records.
Important: Never change a record in the signaturemake file.
Related concepts
Environment configuration
Applying customizations to the production environment
Differential Upgrade utility
Patch records
Checklist: Differential upgrade steps
Related tasks
Create or update a Patch record
Create Signature records on the production system
Move Signature records to the development system
Create the differential upgrade from the development system
Customize the Differential upgrade unload file
Create a differential upgrade unload from an internal file
Load the Differential upgrade into the production system
Load an unload file
