Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.

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A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |

Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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Either word in a topic |
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Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Widgets
The topics in this section describe all available dashboard widgets. You can create the widgets from the following BVD shapes in Visio:
You can edit the properties of a widget in Visio (by editing the Shape Data) or in BVD (by editing a dashboard in Manage Dashboards). We recommend that you make your changes in BVD because the dashboard editor simplifies this task by offering values in drop-down lists for you to choose.
Some advanced operations can only be done in Visio itself. See Tips and Tricks for details.
You can upload an SVG file as often as you want. If the file already exists, BVD replaces the previous version of the file with the newer version and opens the associated dashboard for you to edit. The newer version does not overwrite existing dashboard properties or widgets, only new widgets are added.

Rules use operators to compare current and given values. The available operators are:
== | equal |
< | less than |
> | greater than |
<= | less than or equal |
>= | greater than or equal |
!= | not equal |