Introduction to DIALOG^®

• Introduction to Dialog
• About the Dialog Command Language
• Dialog Without Command Language
• Special DIALOG Features
• Dialog Command Language Search Basics
  • Accessing Dialog
  • Entering Commands
  • Truncation
  • Operators
  • Stacking Commands
  • Range Searching
  • Numeric Searching
  • Output Formats
• Search Assistance and Tools
• How to Use This Guide
  • Conventions Used in the Text

ADD

ARCHIVE

BEGIN

• BEGIN < ... > CURRENT
• BEGIN HITS

CAPTURE

COST

• SET COST

DISPLAY [see TYPE]

DISPLAY SETS

• SET POSTINGS
• Displaying Sets in OneSearch^®
  • FROM EACH
  • FROM <file number>

EDIT

• CHANGE
• COPY
• DELETE
• INSERT
• LIST
• MOVE
• QUERY
• QUIT
• RENUM
• SAVE

EDIT ADDRESS

• EDITing an Existing Address

EDIT PROFILE

• Creating Your Dialog Profile
• Commands to Use with Your Profile
  • RECALL PROFILE
  • EDIT PROFILE
  • RELEASE PROFILE

EXCEL

• Creating an Excel Report

EXECUTE/EXECUTE STEPS

• RECALLing and EXECUTEing a SearchSave
• EXECUTEing a SearchSave within a New SearchSave
• Using EXECUTE with Partial SearchSaves
• Sharing SearchSaves

EXPAND

• Viewing Subsequent Pages of an EXPAND Display
• EXPANDing in DIALINDEX^®
• EXPANDing in OneSearch
• Viewing Online Thesauri
• SELECTing from an EXPAND Display
• Punctuation and Spacing in EXPAND Commands
• SELECTing Related Terms
  • When There Are Fewer than 50 Related Terms
  • When There Are More than 50 Related Terms
• Using the Explode Feature
• EXPAND Numbers in SELECT Statements
  • Using EXPAND Numbers in Multiple-Term SELECT Statements
  • Using Proximity Operators with EXPAND Numbers
  • Qualifying EXPAND Numbers
  • Order of Terms in EXPAND Displays

HELP

HTML

IDENTIFY DUPLICATES

IDENTIFY DUPLICATES ONLY

IDPAT (Patent Duplicate Detection)

KEEP

• KEEP CANCEL

LIMITALL

LOGOFF

LOGOFF HOLD

MAP

• Command Format
• Basic MAP Command: MAP XX
• TEMP Option
• STEPS Option
• EX or EXS Option
  • EX, EXS, and STEPS
• Set Number Option
• Field Prefix Option
• Term Qualifier Option
  • Permissible Term Qualifiers
  • Main Patent Records in the CLAIMS^® Databases
• Items Option
• Limits of the MAP Command
  • Length of SELECT Statements
  • Maximum Number of SELECT Statements
  • Maximum Number of SearchSaves
• Using MAP through Menus

ORDER

PAGE

• PAGE with EXPAND

PAUSE

PICKLIST

PRINT

• Basic PRINT Command
  • Set Number (Sn)
  • Format
  • Item Numbers
  • PRINT Transaction Numbers
  • Direct Record Access
• System Limits
• System Defaults
• Summary of PRINT Command Options
  • Dialog ERA™ (Electronic Redistribution and Archiving) Options
  • OneSearch Option
  • TAG Option
  • PRO (PRINT RESULTS ONLY) Option
  • ADDRESS Option
  • Layout Options
  • HTML Option

PRINT (cont'd)

• Flexible PRINT Command Format
• PRINT TITLE
• PRINT QUERY
  • PRINT QUERY ACTIVE
  • PRINT QUERY DETAIL
  • PRINT QUERY ACTIVE DETAIL
• PRINT CANCEL

RANK

• RANK Options
• View Records in RANK

RANK FILES

RECALL

• RECALL SAVE, RECALL TEMP, RECALL ALERT
• RECALL <SearchSave or DIALOG Alert profile name>
• RECALL ADDRESS
• RECALL <address name>
• RECALL PROFILE
• RECALL DETAIL

REDIST

RELEASE

REMOVE DUPLICATES

REPEAT

REPORT

• Post-Processing Formats
  • DELIM
  • SYLK
  • DIF
  • FIXED
• REPORT TITLES
• Preformatted Reports
• Defaults and Restrictions for Reports
  • Line Width
  • Page Length
  • Order of Output
  • Order of Columns of Data
  • Number of Records
• Tips for Using REPORT

SAVE

• SAVE (SearchSaves)
• SAVE TEMP
• SAVE ALERT
• FROM Option
• Name Option
• Comment Lines
• PRINT and PRINT TITLE Commands
• Integrating SearchSaves into Other Searches
• Tips and Cautions for Using SAVE

SELECT

• Search Terms
  • Single-Term SELECT Statements
    • Word-Indexed Search Terms
    • Punctuation
    • Phrase-Indexed Search Terms
    • Prefix-Coded Search Terms
  • Multiple-Term SELECT Statements
    • Logical and Proximity Operators
  • Order of Processing

SET

• Summary of SET Commands
• SET ADDRESS
  • Canceling an Alternate Address
• SET ALIAS
  • Special Characters as Aliases
  • Using the Prompted Version of SET ALIAS
  • Reserved Words
  • Turning Aliases ON and OFF
  • Canceling an Alias
• SET BANNERS
• SET CONNECT
• SET COST
• SET DETAIL
• SET FILES
  • SET FILES in DIALINDEX
  • SET FILES with OneSearch, Duplicate Detection, or IDPAT
• SET H
• SET HILIGHT
• SET KWIC
• SET NOTICE
• SET PASSWORD
• SET POSTINGS
• SET SELECT
• SET SUBACCOUNT
• SET Un
• Saving Your SET Commands

• Summary of SHOW Commands
• SHOW ALL
• SHOW ADDRESS
• SHOW ALIAS
• SHOW CONNECT
• SHOW COST
• SHOW CURRENT
• SHOW FILES
• SHOW H
• SHOW HILIGHT
• SHOW KWIC
• SHOW NOTICE
• SHOW PASSWORD
• SHOW POSTINGS
• SHOW SELECT
• SHOW SUBACCOUNT
• SHOW Un

SORT

• SORT Options
• Field Code (ff) Option
• Alphabetical Output
• Numeric Output
• Descending Order Option (,D)
• Using SORT in OneSearch
• Multiple SORT Fields
• Tips and Cautions for Using SORT

TEXT

TYPE

• Set Number (Sn)
• Format
• Item Numbers
• Direct Record Access
• TYPE and DISPLAY
• TAG Option
• Dialog ERA
• FROM Option
• System Defaults

VIEW

VISUAL EXPAND

• SELECTing from a VISUAL EXPAND Window
• Viewing Related Terms
• The Explode Feature

VISUAL RANK

WORD

• Creating a Word Report

XML

XSLT

Appendix A: Punctuation and Symbols

Appendix B: Restricted Words

Appendix C: Glossary of Terms