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
Find from and Fill to an array structure
The us.link application makes it possible to perform a find from a field that is part of an array structure and to use fill to move information into that specific element of the array structure. This can only be performed under the following circumstances:
- The field name to fill from/post to is part of the array structure.
- The field name to fill from/post to is not used in any other structure of the database dictionary record.
- The name of the structure must be the same as the name of the array of which it is a part.
To use find/fill on an array structure, you must set up the variable $fill.structure in the expressions of the specific link line. $fill.structure is an array of two elements. The first is the index of the field (that is used as the source field) in the structure and is of type number. The second is the name of the structure and is of type character.
When using the fill function on an array structure, you can only modify the specific line of the structure being accessed. Instead of the actual field name, use the index number of the field within the structure. This includes the source field.
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
