• Add Fields to List Dialog Box
• Alpha Five Basics
• Automatic Backup and Revision Control of Layouts and Field Rules
• Automatically Populating Linking Field Values when Doing Data Entry
• Calculated Fields
• Calculated Values
• Changing the Caseof Words
• Coded Fields
• Controlling a Field's Width
• Copy Previous Field
• Creating a Field Rule Event
• Creating a Posting Field Rule
• Creating a Simple List
• Creating and Using a Summary Field
• Creating and Using an Email Smart Field
• Creating and Using Calculated Values
• Data Field Control Properties
• Default Values
• Defaulting a Date Field to Today's Date
• Define an Alpha Five View Query
• Dial Phone Number in Field
• Display Help Topic
• Exporting Fields from a Table
• Expression Builder
• F1 Context Sensitive Help
• Field Rule Field Events
• Field Rule Record Events
• Field Rules
• Field Rules Table Lookups
• Field Rules: Field Types
• Filtering Records to Exclude a Single Field Value
• Find Tables that Contain a Field Name
• Form Level Field Rules
• How Auto-Increment Fields Work
• Improvements V9
• List Box Table Lookup
• Mask Style
• Microsoft Word Integration
• Modifying a Form Field on the On Change Event
• Multi Field Quick Filter Dialog Box
• Override Field Definitions Dialog
• Overview of Field Rules
• Parent-Child Dialog Example
• Placing a Calculated Value on a Form
• Placing a Data Field on a Form
• Placing Bitmap and JPEG Image Fields
• Placing Image File Reference Fields
• Placing Smart Fields on a Form
• Query Builder
• Quickly Sorting and FilteringRecords
• Re-EvaluatingField Rules
• Recalculating Calculated Fields
• Required Fields
• Resize Fields to Fit Data
• Retrieving Distinct Field Values
• Returning a Different Field Than You Display
• Right-Click Menus
• Select Fields Dialog - Generic
• Select Text in a Field
• Skipping Over Fields
• Sorting and Selecting Overview
• Specify Filter Dialog
• Specify Order Dialog
• Specify Table Name Dialog
• Tracking Changes to Table Fields
• Types of Field Rules
• Update Example
• Using a Coded Lookup Field
• Using Field Rules to Generate A Table Lookup
• Using Field Statistics
• Using Object Properties for Table Lookups
• Using the Fields Panel
• Validation Rules
• When Calculated Fields are Calculated
• Xbasic View Record

Alpha Anywhere Basics

Description

Alpha Anywhere is a feature-filled database and application development tool for Windows that lets you track, report, and manage information. Alpha Anywhere is compatible with the versions of these operating systems that display 8 bit character sets. Alpha Anywhere is easy to learn because it is menu-driven. The menus are self-explanatory; novice and expert alike can quickly make use of Alpha Anywhere's many features.

• Starting_Alpha_Anywhere

• Alpha_Anywhere_Database_Structure

• Basic Concepts and Terminology

• Table Overview

• Set Overview

• Layouts

• Field Rules

• Ordering and Selecting Records

• Operations

• Functions and Expressions

• Applications

Starting Alpha Anywhere

When it starts, Alpha Anywhere displays a scrollable list of the last 30 databases opened. This screen gives you quick access to menu actions (shown in blue so to distinguish them from the recent file list). You may edit the recent file list.

Starting Alpha Anywhere in Debug Mode

You can hold down the Shift and Control keys while Alpha Anywhere is opening a database to open the database in debug mode. If Alpha Anywhere detects that the Shift and Control keys are depressed, you can make one of the following choices before the database is opened.

• "Do not open the start-up Form"

• "Do not run the autoexec Script"

• "Do not display the WindowBar"

• "Prevent this dialog from appearing in the future"

You can prevent this dialog from appearing even if the user is holding down the Shift and Control keys by selecting View > Settings > Preferences, and navigating to Startup > Debug Mode Allowed.

Alpha Anywhere Database Structure

A database is a collection of data. Databases are used for sorting, retrieving, or in some way manipulating the information stored in the database. Information in a database is stored in files called tables. Each table consists of a series of records, where each record represents one person, inventory item, transaction, and such. Each record has several fields, and each field contains one item of data. For example, in a table of employees, there is one record for each employee, and individual items of information about that employee are contained in fields for that record. Information like name, address, social security number, and such, might make up the fields for the employee's record.