Filters the records available for display in a view based on criteria entered for specific fields and/or abacuses on a query form.

Creates a non-listing type template that vertically arranges data rectangles for all non-inert fields in the relation.

Creates a listing type template which horizontally arranges data rectangles for all non-inert fields in the relation.

A convenient method for specifying search criteria while using a non-listing form. Only good for one search parameter.

Rapid Application Development Environment. This tool allows you to organize your data and create applications that access that data.

A flag field can be formatted as a set of two or three radio buttons.

Name of the icon drawn from the icon palette in the Collection window used to create and store structures and all related application elements that create and manipulate stored data. While there is no limit to the number of Relations that may be contained in a Collection, the total number of cumulative records a Relation can hold is 4,294,967,295. By cumulative, we mean the sum of all records (current and deleted) that have ever existed in the Relation.

A relational database is a collection of data items organized as a set of formally-described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables.

The repeat rectangle instructs Helix to repeat its contents for each record that can be displayed on a view.

Converts a collection to run on the Helix Engine. Used for developers who want to design and distribute Helix based programs.

A series of Helix commands to be executed in a specific order.

Hosts a collection to be used by one or more clients.

Used to store formatted information in a variety of colors and fonts.

A listing form that can be imbedded inside a larger form.

Used to design forms to enter and display data.

A field used to store text. Used to sort alphanumeric information.

Used to construct data manipulation procedures within an abacus.

Makes an older collection updatable by Helix Update Collection.

Tool used to update collections that have been created in earlier versions of Helix. Also used to check the structure of a Helix collection.

In a custom mode setting, the user can be selected when starting up the collection or it can be changed from the menu bar. The user icon is used to create custom menus, change user categories, select permissions for individual forms, and select command key equivalents for each custom menu option.

Helix Utility is a tool used to analyze, automatically repair, compress, provide structure size information, and break indices of a collection.

Criteria that a field must meet to be entered.

Used to view, print, enter, change, post, load or dump data in a relation.

Accessing a collection via the Client in a Client/Server setup.