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
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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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Locate a RAD function
To locate a RAD function, follow these steps:
- Click Tailoring > Database Manager.
- Type =application in the Form field.
- Click Search. A blank application file record is displayed.
- Click More or the More Actions icon and then select Expert Search. A query window is displayed.
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Type one of the following in the Query field:
Desired search Syntax Search for a function that is not an rtecall function. index("<function name>",str(contents(currec())))>0
Example:
index("jscall", str(contents(currec())))>0Returns all the RAD application panels that contain the function “jscall” (to call a JavaScript function).
Search for all instances of a particular rtecall function. For this query to run properly, a backslash must precede each double quotation mark within the rtecall parentheses. index("rtecall(\"<function name>\"",str(contents(currec())))>0
Example:
index("rtecall(\"rinit\"", str(contents(currec())))>0Returns all the RAD application panels that contain the function “rinit” (to initialize a file).
Use this syntax to search for all instances of all rtecall functions beginning with a particular letter (for example, the letter r). For this query to run properly, a backslash must precede the first set of double quotation marks. The closed parenthesis is not necessary in this syntax. index("rtecall(\"<first letter>",str(contents(currec())))>0
Example:
index("rtecall(\"s", str(contents(currec())))>0Returns all the RAD application panels that contain a function that starts with the letter “s” such as “sort”.
- Click Search. A record list of RAD panels matching the search criteria is displayed.
- Double-click on a panel to display that instance of the function.
