Paged List Box
Paged list boxes display a list of records. Usually, the records are displayed in key order and the key of reference is displayed on the leftmost column of the list box. Paged list boxes are used extensively throughout OpenSystems, such as OpenMETRIC, and provide a powerful way to search the databases online.
To select a specific line, double click the line or single click and click OK. To select none of the entries, click None. To return with no change, click Cancel.
To export the list to a file and view it, click Export.
For additional information, select one of the subjects below:
Filtering
When using a paged list box, you may filter the records displayed by filling in match boxes at the top of the list and clicking Match. The filters may be exact matches or wild cards. Wild cards can be specified with “*” representing “any number of unspecified characters”. For example, typing “SCOPE” (without the quotes) in a filter for description will show only records whose description is exactly “SCOPE”. Typing “*SCOPE*” (without the quotes) in the description filter will show all records containing "SCOPE” anywhere in the description. Note that the filters are NOT case sensitive. Note that the filter may not contain spaces when wildcarding is used because the searching terminates when it encounters a space.
Paging or Scrolling Up and Down
You can move up and down the paged list boxes by single line or by pages when you click the scroll bar buttons on the right side of the paged list box.
Searching
On many of the paged list boxes you can search for records whose key begins with a typed sequence. Click or tab the cursor into the list and begin typing. A search field will pop up and the paged list box will move forward or back to match the first occurrence of the typed sequence.
Exporting
The Export button will select all of the lines that satisfy the match criteria (see Filtering) and write them to a file that will be automatically opened in Word or any other system utility specified in your Reference File.
When you close/exit the file, you will be asked if you want to save the changes that you have made. This may seem puzzling since you may not have made any changes that you are aware of. Changes were made automatically because the file was automatically opened with a macro which reformatted it changing the font, page size, and color of headers among other things, to make it more legible on the screen. You may answer No to the save changes question.
Always close/exit the file before attempting to export it again. You may encounter a non-recoverable locked error when the system attempts to create a new file if you still have one of the same name open. For example, if you export the Item Status list and then, without closing the file in Word, attempt to export the Item Status list again, you will get the fatal locked error. The export files are named as follows: username_[pagelistbox-name].txt