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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- List: rtecalls
- rtecall("alalnum") function
- rtecall("counter") function
- rtecall("datemake") function
- rtecall("escstr") function
- rtecall("filecopy") function
- rtecall("fileinit") function
- rtecall("filldate") function
- rtecall("getnumber") function
- rtecall("getprimary") function
- rtecall("getrecord") function
- rtecall("getunique") function
- rtecall("isalnum") function
- rtecall("isalpha") function
- rtecall("islower") function
- rtecall("isnumeric") function
- rtecall("isupper") function
- rtecall("log") function
- rtecall("passchange") function
- rtecall("policycheck") function
- rtecall("qbeform") function
- rtecall("recdupl") function
- rtecall("recordexists") function
- rtecall("refresh") function
- rtecall("resetnotebook") function
- rtecall("rfirst") function
- rtecall("rgoto") function
- rtecall("rid") function
- rtecall("scantable") function
- rtecall ("select") function
- rtecall ("setdebug") function
- rtecall("sort") function
- rtecall("statusupdate") function
- rtecall("transtart") function
- rtecall("transtop") function
- rtecall("trigger") function
rtecall("recordexists") function
Specifies whether any records exist that match a particular query regardless of any Mandanten data restrictions. This call does not return any records from the query.
Function
rtecall("recordexists")
Format
$Lexists=rtecall("recordexists", $L.rc, $L.filename, $L.query)
Parameters
The following parameters are valid for the rtecall("recordexists") function:
| Parameter | Data type | Description |
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| "recordexists" | String | Determines the name of the RTE call, in this case "recordexists". |
| $L.rc | String | Provides a more detailed return code. This parameter is not currently used but is reserved for future use. |
| $L.filename | String | The name of the Service Manager table to query. For example, contacts or probsummary. |
| $L.query | String | The query to be run. The query can be true, false, a string, or a parsed expression. This query ignores all Mandanten restrictions. |
Factors
The call returns true if at least one record matches the query.
The call returns false if there are no records that match the query.
Example
rtecall( "recordexists", $L.rc, "contacts", true )
Returns true if there are any records in the contacts table.
rtecall( "recordexists", $L.rc, "device", "logical.name=\"pc001\"" )
Returns true if there is a record in the device table with a logical name of pc001 regardless of whether the current user has access to the record or not.
