Searching Inventory Manufacturers

When you click the Find button on any form the Find form will open.  You will see tabs available, which change the search criteria.  This gives you the most flexible way to search for, or find, the specific record you are looking for.  Once you have narrowed your search down to one record, or a smaller list of records, you proceed to either "Open Selected", or "Open All" buttons.

For a more detailed description of using the Find form, look under the index topic Find.

Closing the Find Form

One way you may exit the Find form by selecting the records you were working on in the Find form and return to your initial form.  This may be accomplished by clicking on the Open Selected or Open All buttons.

The other methods of exiting the Find form follow: hitting the Ctrl+F4 key, clicking the Close button, or clicking the X box in the upper right hand corner of the form.

Toolbar Buttons

Toolbar Buttons perform an action on the current record like adding, deleting or saving.

The New button will bring you to the appropriate form to enter a new record.  For example, if you are working on Customers, clicking on the New button will bring up the Customer form where you will be able to enter New Customer data.

The Save button will save the changes made on this form.

The Open Selected button will transfer the one record (and all the data in that one record that meets all the criteria you have sorted for) to the form you are working on--say the Customer form, for example.

The Open All button will transfer all of the records and all the data in each record that you have sorted in the Find form from the Find form to the form you are working in--say the Customer form, for example.

The Print button will print the search result.

The Export button will allow you to export the search results to your desired file type namely: HTML, PDF, RTF, Text and Excel.

The Refresh button will display all the line items that qualify the search criteria you selected.

The More button will display the next set of records. This button can be used if the number of records that matches the criteria exceeds the number set in Default Records to Retrieve field in User Preference form, Setup tab.

The Close button will close the form.

Press F1 or click F1-Help button in the Status bar for help on how to use the form.