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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- Display application
- Displayscreen definitions
- Display application option definitions
- Restricting access to display options
- Selecting display options
- Calling an application
- Custom RAD
- Creating displayscreen records
- Displayoption Database Dictionary keys
- Displayevent Database Dictionary keys
- Access display records
- Create a displayscreen record
- Create a displayoption record
- Define display conditions
- Enable the Merge Conflicted Updates function for customized user operations
Custom RAD
Determine whether your display screen record should apply to a single form or be available to all the forms within your application. If applying to a single form, consider using Format Control. If you want to apply the display options to a single form, enter the name of that form in the Format field in the displayscreen record. If you want the same display options to be available on multiple forms, you must bind the Format field to the appropriate local variable. This is the variable you have defined in the Array of local variables field of the display panel in your RAD application.
When you are creating your displayoptions, the values you enter in the Action field of the displayoption record must be defined on a decision panel in your RAD application as $L.action=“<action type>”
Related concepts
Menus
Display application
Displayoptions
Selecting display options
