Locating Specific Information in Records

Often, when working with a collection of records, you need to find a particular record or piece of information within that record. There are a number of ways you can do this.

With drop-down list boxes of the business-data type, you can search for valid values and retrieve a selected value into the field.

For more information, see Finding a Specific Value in a Drop-Down List.

On most drop-down lists, you can filter for designated values, to limit the number of items you must look through to find the ones you want.

For more information, see Filtering a Drop-down List.

On most drop-down fields, you can also search the items for specific values.

For more information, see Finding a Value in a Collection of Records.

For other suggestions on how to locate the records you are looking for, see Tips for Finding Records.

Locating Specific Information in Records

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