Search Screen

The Search screen is used to search for a value in the file. This screen is displayed when the search button ("Table View") is pressed -



The system can do to types of searches
Full Line Search If no field is specified, the system does a Text based full line search.
Field Search If a field is specified then
  • Only the specified field is searched
  • The field is converted to text before being searched. This means that Binary fields can be searched.

Fields on this screen are

Field

Description

Search For

Text to be searched for

Replace With

Replacement text.

Record Layout

Record Layout to be used in the search

Field

Field to be searched, leave blank to do a text search on the whole record. Select All Fields to search all fields (preferred record layout).

Where

What to compare options are:

Any part of field

search for the text anywhere in the field

Whole Field

Compare the whole field with the search text.

For example, if the search text was 33 and the field contains 1331 Then Whole Field would skip this record while Any part of field would find it.

Direction

Direction of the Search, options are Forward and Backward.

Note: You can only use the replace function when you specify a specific field