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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- Record retrieval
Multiple-record functions
Multiple-record functions allow you to perform add, update, delete, and print functions on multiple records within a database. The Mass functions (Mass Add, Mass Update, Mass Delete) become available whenever a query produces a record list, that is, the desired function acts upon the records in the record list.
Note: The Mass functions may require use of the Administration Mode check box when starting Database Manager.
The topics below comprise an example of how to use multiple-record functions. Follow the steps in this order. If you skip a step, the example will not work.
- Add multiple records using Mass Add with a literal value
- Add multiple records using Mass Add with a variable value
- Update multiple records using a literal value
- Update multiple records using a variable value
- Avoid invalid duplicate or null key errors
- Delete multiple records
- View multiple records using an alternate form
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