Accessing and navigating online help

The help browser lets you browse, search, and print online documentation for the product. To open the help browser, select Help > Help Contents in the Workbench. This opens the help browser to the bookshelf, which shows the major sets of documentation available.

To navigate online help:

1. Select the desired link on the bookshelf.
2. Expand the topic tree to find the information you are looking for. To view a topic, click the link in the topic tree.
3. Most topics provide a list of links to related topics at the bottom. Follow these links to learn more.
4. Use the Go Forward and Go Back buttons. These behave the same way back and forward buttons work in an Internet browser, taking you to topics you have already looked at.
5. To synchronize the navigation frame with the current topic, click the Refresh / Show Current Topic button

   or Show in Table of Contents button

   . This is helpful if you have followed several links to related topics in several files, and want to see where the current topic fits into the navigation path.

As an alternative to browsing the information this way, use the search engine. Type a query into the Search field at the top of the browser and click Go.

To see context sensitive help from the Workbench put focus on a particular widget and press F1. For more details, refer to the list of related topics below.

To show documentation about capabilities that are disabled in the application, select the Show All Topics button

. When you choose to show all topics in the table of contents, the headings for documentation about any disabled activities are shown in the table of contents and also appear in search results.

 

Maximizing help views

To increase the space available for viewing the help content, the frame that displays content can be maximized. To maximize the frame, click the Maximize button

in the toolbar, or double click the toolbar. To return the frame to its original size, click the Restore button

in the toolbar or double click the tool bar again. Similarly, you can maximize the frame showing navigation, by double clicking its toolbar.

 

Printing online help

To print a topic from the online help:

1. Select the topic in the navigation frame.
2. Click the Print button

   in the Help toolbar.

3. Select the desired printer settings, and click Print.

Online help system

Searching online help
Accessing context sensitive help