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
| Search for | Example | Results |
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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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- Form tailoring
- What is a form?
- Form tailoring use cases
- Selecting values from options in a control
- Selecting values from options on a form
- Changing the options available based on prior user input
- Displaying related data
- Grouping related controls
- Typing text into a control
- Managing global lists
- Reducing upgrade conflicts
Displaying related data
Forms Designer offers two controls that allow users to display data from related tables and records.
- Combo Box
- Subform
You can determine which of these two controls to use by how you want users to interact with the related data.
If you want to use a control that allows users to select and interact with related data, then use a Combo Box control. See Combo Box.
If you want use a control that protects any virtual-joined data by making it read-only, then use a Subform control. See Subform.
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