Finding Data

The find feature on grids and scroll areas enables you to locate specific data. This feature is particularly useful if your table contains hundreds of rows. Note that this feature enables you to search the data within a specific grid or scroll area only. It does not search for any data outside the control. The find feature looks for matches in edit boxes, display-only fields, disabled or shaded fields, dynamic links, and text in long edit boxes. It does not find column headings, field labels, text values on icons, static links, and hidden fields. It also does not search HTML areas that are on the grid or scroll area. Find starts looking in the current row in a grid on fluid pages and in the next row after the current row on classic pages. On all page types, a subsequent find with the original search string will skip a second and any additional occurrences of the search string in the same row.

The Find link or the Find button (on fluid grids) represents the find feature in the navigation bar of your grid or scroll area. Clicking this link displays a dialog box prompting you to enter your search string. In standard grid mode, the find feature searches through all rows of data in the buffer and brings the first occurrence in your search string to the top of the row list in the grid. In a fluid grid, focus is placed on the found search string regardless of whether the field is editable. In a classic grid, the row containing the string is displayed at the top of the row list in the grid. If the found search string is on a field that is editable, focus is set on that field. If the field with the found search string is not an editable field, focus is placed on the first editable field in the row; if no fields on the row are editable the row containing the string is displayed at the top of the row list in the grid without focus on any field.In View All grid mode, the find feature searches through all rows of data in the buffer, however it does not bring the first occurrence in your search string to the top of the row list in the grid. Instead it highlights the found row. If you are in a scroll area that displays only one row of data at a time, the find feature opens that row of data. To find the next occurrence, click the Find link and enter your search string again.

If your search string does not appear in the currently visible rows, the find feature opens a new display of rows so that the row containing the search string appears in the grid.

On tabbed grids, the find feature searches all tabs to locate the search string. If your search string does not appear in the currently active tab, the find feature moves to the tab where the row containing the search string appears in the grid and makes active the tab where the string is found.

Each grid or scroll area control, if it is set up to perform a find, has a separate Find link in the navigation header of that control. If a scroll area has nested grids or scroll areas, the find feature searches only the current scroll level; it does not search the nested lower-level data.

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Your browser may also have a find feature. This tool, however, does not search through data in the entire data buffer for the grid or scroll area. It searches the HTML code for what appears on the current open page only. Thus, it searches field headings, read-only text, and headings in grids, group boxes, and scroll areas only.