How to Search the Descriptions of a Structure or Table

Step by step how to search the descriptions of a structure or table:

  1. Begin at the Dictionary: Table/Structure: Display Fields screen.
  2. Choose the menu path Table->Print. The Print Table Manual screen is displayed. Here you specify which details you want to see.
  3. Tickmark all fields and press the Continue button. The Print: screen is displayed.
  4. 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.)
  5. Press the Print Preview button at the bottom of the screen. The Print Preview for xxxx Page 00001 of nnnnn screen is displayed.
  6. Choose the menu path Goto->List Display. The Print Preview for xxxx screen is displayed.
  7. Type %sc in the Command field on the Standard toolbar.
  8. Press the Enter key. The Find screen is displayed.
  9. 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.
  10. Press the Find button. A second Find screen appears showing the lines that contain the text you typed. Matches are highlighted.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Scroll, if necessary, to the %sc command and click on it. %sc appears in the command field.
  14. Press the Enter key. The Find screen is redisplayed.
  15. Press the Find button. The search is performed starting at the current line. The second Find screen is redisplayed and the matches are shown.
  16. Click once on any highlighted word to display it.

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