The idea is quite simple, so we'll just say it:

Sounds easy? It mostly is.

You mark records Hidden or Sticky using the Make Sticky and Make Hidden buttons respectively. These are toggle buttons, so you can unmark a Sticky record by un-clicking the Sticky button. You can also clear either marking using the Clear Sticky/Hidden button.

You can also enable or disable the effect of each type of marking:

Use Sticky is a toggle button that, if depressed, will make Sticky records "do their thing" and remain in the Search Results grid all the time. If this button is in the Off state, Sticky records are still marked as such, but they behave like any other record.

Use Hidden is similarly responsible for the behavior of the Hidden records.

If you ever wanted to clear the Hidden flag from a record, you'd obviously need to temporarily turn Use Hidden Off, find the record in the Search Results, select it, and clear the Hidden flag.

And this would be the end of that Hidden and Sticky subject, if it weren't for one other aspect of it.

Administrative Hidden/Sticky. If you've been reading this manual consecutively, you already know everything about it. If not, we'll just say here that the Hidden/Sticky attributes of a record work very much the same as Record Styles, including the fact that Hidden/Sticky flags can be applied Administratively to be seen as such by a user's subordinates.

Arbitration also works the same way. So we won't repeat our tedious explanation here and instead refer you to the portion of the chapter on Record Styles that deals with Administrative Styles and Arbitration between them.

UniGrids indicate the Hidden/Sticky states of records using the following symbols in the State column:

Hidden by User (that'd be you)

Sticky by User

Hidden by Administrator

Sticky by Administrator

Hidden by User, with some arbitration between User's and Administrator's state going on

Sticky with arbitration

Cleared by User (i.e., the User cleared whatever state has been set by the Administrator)