<p class="Paragraph"><help:to-be-embedded Eid="suchentext" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:help-text value="hide">Click this icon to search for a specific value in data fields.</help:help-text> In forms or database tables, you can search through data fields, lists fields and check boxes for specific values.</help:to-be-embedded></p>
<p class="Paragraph">When searching a table, the data fields of the current table are searched. When searching in the form, the data fields of the table linked with the form are searched.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The search described here is carried out by <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname>. If you want to use the SQL server to search in a database, then you should use the icon <help:link Id="66040" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Form based filter</help:link> contained in the <help:link Id="65578" Eid="formular" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Form bar</help:link>.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">The search function is also available for table controls. When calling the search function when a table control is selected you can search each column of the table control corresponding to the database columns of the linked database table.</p>
<p class="Head2">Search for</p>
<p class="Paragraph">This is where you choose what you want to look for.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Enter the search term in the combo box or select it from the list.</help:help-text> If the cursor is in a field containing simple text (without tabs and line breaks) when the dialog is called up, the selected entry will be automatically entered into the text box of the Find dialog. Change this entry. Please note, while running a search in a form, tabs and line breaks cannot be processed.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Several search terms will be saved as long as the table or the formula document is open. If you are running more than one search and you would like to repeat the search term, you can select an already used search term from the list box.</p>
<p class="Head3"><help:help-id value="SVX_RADIOBUTTON_RID_SVXDLG_SEARCHFORM_RB_SEARCHFORNULL" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Field content is NULL</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If this option has been selected a search will be made for fields that do not have any content.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3"><help:help-id value="SVX_RADIOBUTTON_RID_SVXDLG_SEARCHFORM_RB_SEARCHFORNOTNULL" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Field content is not NULL</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If this option has been selected then fields will be found that contain data.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head2">area</p>
<p class="Paragraph">You can determine the fields in this area for the search.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This is where you specify the logical form in which you want the search to take place.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">This combo box is only visible if the current document is a form document with more than one logical form. It does not appear during a search in tables or queries.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">Form documents may contain multiple logical forms. These are individual form components, which are each linked to a table. Imagine that you have a form (linked to table A) with a subform (linked to table B). Parent and subform are each logical forms. Your form document therefore consists of two logical forms.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The combo box contains the names of all logical forms for which controls exist. By default, the logical form is selected in which the control selected was when you accessed the dialog.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Select this option to search through all fields.</help:help-text> If you are running a search in a table, all fields in the table will be searched through. If you are running a search in a form, all fields of the logical form (entered under <span class="T1">Form</span>) will be searched through. If you are running a search in a table control field, all columns, which are linked to a valid database table field, will be searched through.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Please note that the fields of the current logical form do not have to be identical to the fields of the form document. If the form document contains fields that point to multiple data sources (i.e. to multiple logical forms), the <span class="T1">All fields</span> option will only search for the fields linked to data sources in the form document.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">By selecting this option, you can search through a specific data field.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head2">Settings</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Here you can make a number of settings to control the search.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Enter the relationship of the search term and the field contents here.</help:help-text> The following options are available:</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Returns all fields containing the search pattern anywhere in the field, at the beginning, at the end or in the center of the field.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If the <span class="T1">Wildcard expression</span> check box is marked, this function is not available.</p>
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<p class="Head3"><help:help-id value="HID_SEARCH_FORMATTER" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Apply field format</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If you mark this check box, all field formats will be considered in the current document.</help:help-text> Field formats are all visible formats, which were created using the following possibilities:</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">If you want to search through the data in a table or form in the data view, you can choose to consider the formatting currently shown or the default database formatting during the search. If the <span class="T1">Apply field format</span> check box is marked, the data view of the table or form is searched using the formatting set there; if it is not marked, the database is searched using the formatting saved in the database.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Example:</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Say you have a date field, which is saved in "DD.MM.YY" format in the database (e.g. 17.02.65). In Data View, you can change the formatting by choosing the <span class="T1">Column Format...</span> command on the header context menu. For example, select the "TT. MMM JJJJ" format for data view so that dates are displayed in the following format: "17. Feb 1965". After editing the field formatting, a record containing February 17 is only returned with the following settings:</p>
<p class="TextInTable">"2" is returned, but not "Feb".</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">It is recommended that you complete the search using field formatting. Otherwise (internal) field formatting is considered, which may lead to undesirable search results.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The following examples show possible issues when searching without field formatting. These issues depend on the database used and only occur for certain internal default formatting:</p>
<p class="TextInTable">Time fields are not defined for dBase databases and must be simulated. To internally display the time "14:00:00", a 5 is necessary.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">"45.79" does not return "45.79" although the <span class="T1">Entire field</span> option is selected under <span class="T1">Position</span>.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">The view shown does not match what is stored internally. For example, if value 45.789 is stored in the database as a field of type Number/Double and the shown formatting is set to display only two digits following the decimal point, "45.79" is only returned in searches with field formatting.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">In this case, default formatting is formatting, which refers to the internally stored data. They are not always visible to the user - especially if they are used for simulating data types (e.g. time fields in dBase databases). This depends on the database used and the individual data type. It is simply important to know that you are "always on the safe side" when searching with field formatting if you only want to find what is actually shown. This specifically includes fields of type Date, Time, Date/Time and Number/Double.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Searching without field formatting, however, can be very useful because there is an advantage: you can accelerate the search. Therefore, you can select this search option for larger databases if there are no formatting issues.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you are searching "with field format" in check boxes, you will receive a "1" for markded check boxes, a "0" for unmarked ones and an empty string for undefined (in gray) ones. If the search has been carried out without <span class="T1">Apply field format</span>, you will see language-dependent default values "TRUE" or "FALSE".</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you use "with field format" when searching in list fields you will find the text displayed in list fields, "without field format" you will find the contents corresponding to the normal field format.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">With match case, upper and lower case are taken into consideration.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Mark this check box to invert the search direction.</help:help-text> If this check box is marked, the search process will run in reverse direction (from the last to the first record).</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Mark this check box to restart the search. A forward search (unmark the <span class="T1">Search backwards</span> check box) restarts with the first table record. In a backwards search (mark the <span class="T1">Search backwards</span> check box) it will restart with the last record.</help:help-text> Mark this check box to repeat a search, not to continue one. A new or repeat search always starts with the first or last record.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="hide" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Mark this check box if you want to search with a * or ? wildcard.</help:help-text> Mark this check box if the search term contains a wildcard. You can use the following wildcards:</p>
<p class="TextInTable">"*-*" returns "ZIP-Drive" and "CD-ROM"</p>
<p class="TextInTable">"M*er" returns all entries starting with an "M" and ending in "er" (e.g. Miller, Moller, Mather)</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">If you want to search for the actual wildcards "?" or "*" enter them with a backslash, i.e. "\?" or "\*" (without quotation marks), so that the question mark or the star are searched for. However, this is only necessary when you search with a wildcard. In "normal" mode, the wildcard characters are processed like regular characters.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This check box permits a search with regular expressions.</help:help-text> In regular expressions, certain characters can be used which control the search process. These characters can be characters used as wildcards or characters defining a specific search. The same regular expressions that are supported here are also supported in the <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> <help:link Id="65852" Eid="platzhalter" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Find & Replace dialog</help:link>.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Searching for regular terms offers more options than searching with wildcards. The latter, however, is typically sufficient in normal usage and can be handled more easily. If you search for regular terms, the following characters correspond to those used in searches with wildcards:</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The Status Bar shows the current record returned by the search. If the search reaches the end (or the beginning) of the table, the search is automatically continued at the beginning (or the end). Depending on the search direction, an appropriate message appears.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">In very large databases, finding the record in reverse search order can take some time. In this case, the status bar informs you that the records are still being counted.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="hide" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Use this button to start or cancel the search.</help:help-text> With the <span class="T1">Search</span> button, you will start a search. If the search is successfully completed, the corresponding field will be highlighted. You can continue the search process by clicking again the <span class="T1">Search</span> button or with the<span class="T1"> At the beginning</span> or <span class="T1"><text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>At the end</span> setting. You can cancel a search process by clicking the <span class="T1">Cancel</span> button. To end the search, click the <span class="T1">Close</span> button.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Click this button to close the dialog. The settings of the last search process will be adopted and will be preserved until you end the <help:productname>%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> program.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">If several tables or forms are open, set individual search options for each document. Then close the documents one at a time, and the search options of the document last closed are saved.</p>
