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Select Field Dialog Box Properties
This topic describes how you can use the Select Field dialog box to select the fields that you want. The dialog box varies according to different sources that you opened it from.
When you select + on the title bar of the Filter panel to open the Select Field dialog box, you see the following properties in the dialog box:
Select Fields
Select the fields of the same data type to add into the Filter panel. You cannot add incomparable data type fields to the Filter panel together, such as Binary, Blob, Clob, Longvarchar, Longvarbinary, and Varbinary.
Select to select an order from the drop-down list with which to sort the view elements. Once you changed the order, it applies to all the resource trees where you see the business view elements.
The order can be one of the following:
- Predefined Order
Select if you want to sort the view elements in the order as in the Business View Editor of Designer. - Resource Types
Select if you want to sort the view elements by resource type. Namely, category objects come first, then group objects, then aggregation objects, and at last detail objects. - Alphabetical Order
Select if you want to sort the view elements in alphabetical order. Logi Report sorts the elements that are not in any category first, and then the categories. It also sorts the elements in each category alphabetically.
Select to launch the search bar to search for view elements.
See the following options in the search bar:
- Text box
Type the text you want to search in the text box. Server lists the values that contain the matched text. - X
Select to close the search bar or clear the typed text. 
Select the button and Server displays more search options.- Highlight All
Select if you want to highlight all matched text. - Match Case
Select if you want to search for text that meets the case of the typed text. - Match Whole Word
Select if you want to search for text that looks the same as the typed text.
- Highlight All
When you selected Highlight All, you can use this button to go to the previous matched text.
When you selected Highlight All, you can use this button to go to the next matched text.
Apply To
Select the data components in the current report to which you want to apply the filter.
OK
Select OK to apply the field you selected here.
Cancel
Select Cancel to close the dialog box without selecting a field.
Select to view information about the Select Field dialog box.
Select to close the dialog box without selecting a field.
When you select Add Dynamic Field in the Insert Link dialog box or Edit Link dialog box when the link type is URL or E-mail, you see the following properties in the Select Field dialog box:
Resources box
Server lists all the elements in the current business view and dynamic resources in the current report. Select a field from the resource tree to insert it into the URL or e-mail address to compose a dynamic hyperlink. You should make sure the field you select contains the information to compose a correct URL or e-mail address.
- Current Field
Select this item to use the field that is related to the trigger object of the link to compose the URL or e-mail address.
Select to select an order from the drop-down list with which to sort the view elements. Once you changed the order, it applies to all the resource trees where you see the business view elements.
Select to launch the search bar to search for view elements.
All Available Values
Select this property if you want to display in the URL all the runtime values of the field that you selected here, instead of only one value. You can select this property when you are linking an object in a chart, table, banded object, or crosstab (excluding its summaries) to URL, and when you did not select Current Field.
OK
Select OK to apply the field you selected here.
Cancel
Select Cancel to close the dialog box without selecting a field.
Select to view information about the Select Field dialog box.
Select to close the dialog box without selecting a field.