How to Search the Descriptions of a Structure or Table
Step by step how to search the descriptions of a structure or table:
- Begin at the Dictionary: Table/Structure: Display Fields screen.
- Choose the menu path Table->Print. The Print Table Manual screen is displayed. Here you specify which details you want to see.
- Tickmark all fields and press the Continue button. The Print: screen is displayed.
- If the Output Device field is blank, position your cursor in the field, press the down arrow, and choose any output device. (It doesn’t matter which device you choose; it won’t be used.)
- Press the Print Preview button at the bottom of the screen. The Print Preview for xxxx Page 00001 of nnnnn screen is displayed.
- Choose the menu path Goto->List Display. The Print Preview for xxxx screen is displayed.
- Type %sc in the Command field on the Standard toolbar.
- Press the Enter key. The Find screen is displayed.
- In the Search For field, type a character string to be found. If you are searching for the current logon language, you might type language. Wildcard characters are not permitted.
- Press the Find button. A second Find screen appears showing the lines that contain the text you typed. Matches are highlighted.
- To select a match, click once on a highlighted word. You are returned to the Print Preview for xxxx screen; the list is scrolled to the line you selected and the cursor is positioned on that line.
- To search again, press the down arrow at the end of the Command field on the Standard toolbar. A drop-down box appears containing the most recently entered commands.
- Scroll, if necessary, to the %sc command and click on it. %sc appears in the command field.
- Press the Enter key. The Find screen is redisplayed.
- Press the Find button. The search is performed starting at the current line. The second Find screen is redisplayed and the matches are shown.
- Click once on any highlighted word to display it.
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