General Querying Facilities

You will often find, when working in Outfitting, that you need to check existing information about some aspect of the program’s operations; for example:

• Current usage in terms of users, modules and DBs.

• The currently selected output device.

• The unique code which identifies the process you are running and the station you are running it from (useful for generating unique workfile names).

• The current setting, perhaps the default setting, of a command option.

• The contents of part of a particular DB; for example, the current setting of an attribute or the list of member elements owned by a specific element.

• The elements which match specific selection criteria entered by you.

• To ask for such information from within Design, type

  Query(almost always abbreviated to Q)

  followed by the relevant querying option as described in the following sections. (You also will find more specific querying syntax throughout this set of manuals.)