Conditions Tab

Use the Conditions tab to select and customize conditions that become steps to narrow the scope of a query. The Conditions tab provides examples of various types of conditions. You modify the examples to create the exact condition that you want for a step in a query.

Categories of conditions

The following list describes the categories of condition examples on the Conditions tab:

Creating conditions

To create a condition using an example, complete the following steps:

  1. Click a drill icon beside a condition category to drill in the examples in that category.

  2. Highlight a condition example that is similar to the condition that you want to create.

  3. Click a blue, underscored part of the example and edit it by either typing or by selecting from the available options.

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    Click the Edit Step button to the far right of the example and change parts of the condition using the options in the Edit Step dialog box for that type of condition.

    Tip: A different version of the Edit Step dialog box is displayed, depending on the kind of condition that you are creating.

Adding, keeping, and removing members

When you use an Edit Step dialog box to create a condition, you specify whether to add, keep, or remove the members that are returned by that condition step, as explained in the following list: