3.0
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Setup
- Form Usage
- OmniForm Procedures
- Designing a Form
- The Design Process
- The Design View Window
- The Design View Toolbars
- Creating Objects
- General Creation Guidelines
- Creating a Text Object
- Creating a Line Object
- Creating an Oval Object
- Creating a Rectangle Object
- Creating a Graphic Object
- Creating a Fill Text Object
- Creating a Comb Object
- Creating a Check Box Object
- Creating a Circle Text Object
- Creating a Table Object
- Creating a Fill Graphic Object
- Defining Objects
- Changing Object Appearance
- The Shared Form Property
- Redesigning Your Form
- Using the Scrapbook
- Inserting OLE Objects in a Form
- Filling a Form
- Managing an OmniForm Database
- Using Calculations
- Technical Information
Searching a Form
OmniForm Procedures 11
Searching a Form
This section describes how to use the
Search...
command to open a form
in fill view and perform a search. You can also use the Form Assistant
dialog box to search a form. See “Using Form Assistant” on page 3-2.
Using the
Search...
Command
1 If you have a form open and are in design view, click the Fill
button in the standard toolbar or choose
Fill
in the View menu.
2 Choose
Search...
in the Records menu.
The Search dialog box appears
3 Select the field to search in the
Field Name
drop-down list.
4 Select how to search for the information in the
Condition
drop-
down list.
5 Type the information to find in the
Value
text box.
6 Select which records to search.
•Select
Search
All Records in the Database
to search all records in
the current database.
•Select
Only Search Current Record Set
to search the current
found set of records. This option is only available after a
search.
7 Click
OK.
OmniForm searches the records and finds any that contain the
information you specified.
See “Searching Records for Information” on page 7-7 for detailed
information on searching.
The field to search
How to search
What to search for
Which records to search