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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Field value matching
Field value matching enables you to specify matching output values to various input values.
Syntax: FIELD ? ValueList : DisplayList
FIELD is any variable or file field surrounded by brackets, for example, [$x], [name], and so forth.
ValueList and DisplayList are lists of comma-separated values
Use field value matching
Setting the color of a label to change based on the value of a severity field
The severity is specified in an edit field whose input is $severity. You set the Color Condition of the label as follows:[$severity]? "sev1","sev2","sev3" : 1,7,2
This statement tells the label to do the following:
- Use a color value of 1 (red) when $severity="sev1"
- Use a color value of 7 (yellow) when $severity="sev2"
- Use a color value of 2 (green) when $severity="sev3"
Specify a value to use if no match is found
[$severity]? "sev1","sev2","sev3" : 1,7,2, 0
This tells the system to use color 0 (black) if $severity is none of the listed "sev" values.
Note: The $severity field must have been assigned as input to at least one field on the screen.
