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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Forms Designer best practices
Forms Designer can produce portable forms that render successfully in the Windows and Web clients if you follow a few design suggestions. To ensure all forms are portable, test each new or upgraded form with both clients.
Hint: You can cut or copy and paste existing objects onto other forms.
Printing forms: printing is designed to work nicely with label/inputs; however, it will NOT work with arbitrary positioning of widgets in the form. If you want to print a table, make it a table - do not simulate one with "cleverly" placed labels.
Using pop-up subforms can save screen real estate, and can be helpful for performance because the query to obtain the subform information is not made until the data is needed for display.
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