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
Virtual joining functionality
The Virtual Join function allows a single form to display information from many files. You cannot modify virtually joined information but it can link with other files using Find and Fill.
There are special requirements for virtual joins when specifying link information:
- The TARGET Format/File Name value in the link record must contain a file name not a form name.
- The target field must be a non-concatenated key in the target file.
- The target field must be the first instance of the key in the database dictionary’s key array.
- The target field must be a scalar field (non-array).
- Virtual Join only executes simple links.
While the appearance of virtually joined information is the same as if it exists in the open record, the information is stored in one place and displayed on demand to another.
Note: Use virtual join in any form except record list forms. Use virtual join information as a source field to other information using Find or Fill. Nested virtual joins are not supported.
Related concepts
Link maintenance
Types of links
Find functionality
Fill functionality
Us.link
Variables used in links
Calling us.link
Find from and Fill to a $ variable
Find from and Fill to a $ variable
