|
Online help provides several ways for you to locate and display a topic, as summarized below. Refer to specific sections in this chapter for more information about the online help screen and various navigation techniques.
|
|
|
Contents
|
You can display a manual's "table of contents," then choose the topic you want to view. You can select topics individually from the table of contents or browse from one topic to the next.
|
|
|
Click on the
Contents button in the navigation frame to get the list of manuals, then click on the bookshelf icon beside the name of the manual you want.
|
|
|
Subject
|
You can display a list of topics by subject--pieces of information that are related by subject matter are grouped together--then choose the topic you want to view.
|
|
|
Click on the
Subjects button in the navigation frame to get the list of subjects, then click on the bookshelf icon beside the subject you want.
|
|
|
A
subject is a means by which software items and information are organized to facilitate discussion. Related subjects are gathered under broader categories to allow the user to more easily and logically navigate through the documentation. The
3D ACIS Online Help User's Guide contains templates that describe each of the subjects used to group information in online help.
|
|
|
List of
|
You can display an alphabetical list of reference items, by type of information (class, function, etc.), then choose the specific topic you want to view.
|
|
|
Click on the
List of... button in the navigation frame to display the types from which to choose, then click on the bookshelf icon beside the reference type you want.
|
|
|
Search
|
You can display a list of topics that contain a specified keyword. The search can be performed by index, which is a search of only the words that have been indexed, or full text "find," which is a search of the word anywhere in any online help topic (and thus considerably slower). The searches include both discussion topics and reference template topics.
|
|
|
Enter the keyword of interest in the search field of the navigation frame, then click on either the
Index or the
Find button.
|