1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textshared0212110000xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Form-based Filters</title> 35<filename>/text/shared/02/12110000.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-10-07T12:28:01">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:FormFilter" id="bm_id7677230" localize="false"/><!-- HID added by script --> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:FormFilter" id="bm_id3154894" localize="false"/> 45<section id="formbasedfilters"> 46<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147000" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><variable id="formfilter"><link href="text/shared/02/12110000.xhp" name="Form-based Filters">Form-based Filters</link> 47</variable></paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154230" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2"><variable id="formfiltertext"><ahelp hid=".uno:FormFilter">Prompts the database server to filter the visible data by specified criteria.</ahelp> 49</variable></paragraph> 50</section> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152918" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">Unlike the normal search, which is activated by the <link href="text/shared/02/12100200.xhp" name="Find Record">Find Record</link> icon on the <emph>Form</emph> Bar, you can search more quickly by using the form-based filter. Usually a quick database server is charged with the search. Also, you can enter more complex search conditions.</paragraph> 52<section id="syformfilter"> 53<table id="tbl_id3156136"> 54<tablerow> 55<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153394" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E"> 57<image id="img_id3147226" src="res/commandimagelist/sc_formfilter.png" width="0.564cm" height="0.564cm"><alt id="alt_id3147226" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 58 </image></paragraph> 59</tablecell> 60<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149751" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Form-based Filters</paragraph> 62</tablecell> 63</tablerow> 64</table> 65 66</section> 67<embed href="text/shared/guide/data_search2.xhp#data_search2"/> 68</body> 69</helpdocument> 70