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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- Consuming a Service Manager Web Service
- Dynamic and static Web Services clients
- Updating Service Manager tables
- Requirements for developing custom Web Services clients
- Checklist: Creating a custom Web Services client
- Sample Web Services client for sc62server PWS URL
- Command line arguments for the .NET sample application
- Command line arguments for the Axis sample application
- Using query syntax
- Retrieving data from Service Manager
- Example: Retreiving data from Service Manager via a Web Service
- Retrieving data from Service Manager using Pagination
- Retrieve data from Service Manager for Optimistic Locking
- Web Services examples in the RUN directory
- Special considerations for using Keep-Alive with Service Manager
- Use SSL to consume Service Manager Web Services
- Attachment handling
Retrieve data from Service Manager using Pagination
Retrieving a list of data objects may result in a very large XML response document that could cause performance and memory utilization issues either on the client or the server. To avoid these problems, Service Manager supports the use of pagination, the process of returning pages of data instead of one large response.
To enable pagination, a Web service request can make use of these additional attributes:
- count – number of records/keys to return. By default all records are returned. This attribute indicates you want to use pagination. (Optional attribute)
- start – the starting record/key number. By default a retrieve request will start at record 0. (Optional attribute)
- handle – a record-list handle returned on a previous retrieve request that specified a count.
When pagination is used, the Web service does the following:
- If there is not a 'start' or 'count' attribute, the service returns all records or keys.
- With a valid 'start' value and 'no count' attribute, the service returns all records starting from the 'start' attribute.
- With a valid 'start' attribute and valid 'count' attribute, the service returns the number of keys or records starting from the 'start' attribute.
- With a negative 'start' attribute, the service returns records from the first record and creates a warning in log file.
- With a negative 'count' attribute, the service returns one record and creates a warning message in the log file.
- With the 'start' attribute greater than the total number of records or keys, the service returns no records and creates a message in the error log file.
