Visual Elements
11 min
status icon the status icon is located on the left of the query field, and indicates if quickquery is enabled and if hints are being displayed quickquery is disabled when the lightning bolt ⚡ is grey, quickquery is disabled you can enable quickquery by clicking on the lightning bolt ⚡ quickquery is enabled and hinting is enabled when the lightning bolt ⚡ is yellow and the bottom arrow 🔽 is also yellow, quickquery is enabled and hinting is turned on you can disable hinting by pressing \[ esc ] when typing a query (i e the cursor is inside the visual elements docid\ p4uiqlb6kdnaoydfb8uhb ) and no visual elements docid\ p4uiqlb6kdnaoydfb8uhb is being displayed if a list of hints is being displayed, pressing \[ esc ] once will close it, and pressing it a second time will turn hinting off quickquery is enabled and hinting is disabled when the lightning bolt ⚡ is yellow and the bottom arrow 🔽 is grey, quickquery is enabled and hinting is turned off you can turn hinting back on by pressing \[ esc ] when typing a query (i e the cursor is inside the visual elements docid\ p4uiqlb6kdnaoydfb8uhb ) query field to search using quickquery, write your query inside the query field it will automatically get color highlighted to easily distinguish each part of the query field types, operations, logical operators, and so on additionally, if visual elements docid\ p4uiqlb6kdnaoydfb8uhb , a list of hints will get displayed as you type if your query contains an error , the corresponding part of the query will get underlined and an error message will get displayed these are fairly understandable when a simple error is involved (e g an invalid field name or operation is used), but can get fairly cryptic when you make a mistake that quickquery can't recognize however, in those situations, highlighting stops working at the point the error occurred, so it's usually obvious what the mistake is hint list as you type your query inside the visual elements docid\ p4uiqlb6kdnaoydfb8uhb , quickquery will hint possible completions by searching all permissible inputs and showing the ones that contain the characters you wrote for example, in the picture above, all permissible inputs containing the characters " age " are shown you can use the arrow keys \[↑] / \[↓] and \[↵ enter] or the mouse 🖱️ to select a particular hint and have it inputed into the visual elements docid\ p4uiqlb6kdnaoydfb8uhb each row contains the following information about the item in question, from left to right (left) badge indicating type of item field, module or logical operation (left) label of item, if it exists, or system name (left) system name of item in parentheses, if aforementioned label exists (right) badge indicating type of field, if applicable buttons search button the search button is red when a query is incomplete or contains an error, and green when a query is valid and can be used to search the button is disabled if no change has been made to the query since the last search if you need to execute the search again anyway (e g to refresh results), use \[⇧shift] + \[↵ enter] while the cursor is inside the visual elements docid\ p4uiqlb6kdnaoydfb8uhb documentation button the documentation button ? leads to these webpages clear results button the clear results button x is only enabled when a search has been executed, and cancels the query that is currently active