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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- Link maintenance
- Data relationships and the link file
- Types of links
- Find functionality
- Fill functionality
- Fill functionality with multi-select
- Turn off multi-select functionality
- Virtual joining functionality
- Us.link
- Variables used in links
- Calling the us.link
- Skipping query writing
- Accessing $File/dates
- Find from and fill to a $ variable
- Find from and fill to an array structure
- The $fill.display and $fill.display.add functionality
- Access the link record
Accessing $File/dates
$File is used in Fill and Find link line queries. You can modify the $File directly using the link expressions and the changes are automatically saved in the source record. When performing a fill on a date field, the system first checks to see if that date field is in the link record. If the date field is in the link record, the link expressions perform rather than just fill the current date and time. This way it is possible to fill with something other than tod() (such as date(tod()) or tod() + ‘7 00:00:00’).
Related concepts
Link maintenance
Types of links
Find functionality
Fill functionality
Virtual joining functionality
Us.link
Variables used in links
Calling us.link
Find from and Fill to a $ variable
