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.
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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". |
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. |
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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Local variables
Local variables begin with $L. and persist only within the currently executing RAD application. The server cleans up local variables automatically when it exits a RAD application.
The following is a list of Standard Variables used with the Document Engine:
$L.action - the display action value from the display option
$L.bg - Background flag
$L.category - The category record (if available)
$L.env - The current environment record
$L.exit - internal exit parameter
$L.file - The current file variable
$L.file.save - A copy of the record in its original state
$L.format – name of the format used to display the record
$irspread – determines the IR discovery options: 0=shallow search, 2=deep search, 4=complete match
$L.mode – the mode the viewed record is in, typically add to create a new record, update to modify an existing record or close to finish processing of an existing record
$L.mult - Flag that is true if there are multiple records in the $L.file variable
$L.object - The object record
$L.phase - The phase record (if available)
$L.sql or $L.query- the current query
$L.sort - the current sort order
$L.state – The state record the system is using (=the state the record is in).
Variables that are available in View mode (when viewing a single record)
$L.fc – copy of the detail FormatControl record
$L.fc.master – copy of the master FormatControl record