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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Using stored queries in display objects
An administrator can use stored queries to retrieve and display dynamic data using menu buttons, charts, and marquees. Stored queries applied in this manner are not accessible to the user and operate in the background to retrieve records from the database.
For example, you could place a dynamic chart on a supervisor’s startup menu showing all open records by category. By placing buttons that run individual stored queries on the bottom of the chart, the supervisor could display lists of records by category.
Using menu buttons to run stored queries
Buttons that run stored queries from a menu must have a button ID defined in a menu record. Use the following values to run a stored query from a menu:
- Application: query.stored
- Parameter Name: text
- Parameter Value: <stored query name>
- Condition: true (or a condition statement that checks for a particular query group)
Using stored queries to produce charts and marquees
Stored queries produce dynamic information that the system gathers and displays in a bar chart. Agent records that reference each display object in Forms Designer define these queries.
A marquee runs one stored query at a time and cannot provide access to actual records. Queries run from marquees that display messages about records.
