Introducción - El nuevo diseño y funcionalidad

5. El nuevo diseño y funcionalidad

5.1. Introducción

A comprehensive Help system is available for solving your tasks. It describes basic concepts, instructions and functions. While working with the program, you also receive the following support:

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Roll-out for correct inputs in dialog boxes

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Tooltips for information on elements of the user interface, for example text boxes, buttons and icons.

Some of the tooltips are supplemented by cascades containing more precise information.

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Help on the current context, on menu commands for example when you click on the keys <F1> or

<Shift+F1>.

The following figure shows an example of a cascading tooltip (top) and a roll-out (bottom):

Help

The Help system describes concepts, instructions and functions. It also contains reference information and examples.

The Help system opens up in its own window on the right side of the screen.

You can display a navigation field in the Help system. You have access to the following functions there:

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Table of contents

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Search in the index

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Full text search of the entire Help

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^Favorites

You will find further information on working with Help in the Chapter "Using the Help system (Page 139) ".

Identification of the topics in the Help system

The help topics are identified by different symbols depending on the type of information they contain.

Symbol Information type Explanation

Operating instructions Describes the steps to follow in order to carry out a particular task.

Example Contains a concrete example to explain the task.

Factual information Contains background information that you need to know to carry out a task.

Reference Contains comprehensive reference information to refer back to.

Roll-out

Certain text boxes offer information that rolls out and helps you to enter valid parameters and values. The roll-out informs you about permissible value ranges and data types of the text boxes.

The following figure shows a roll-out (yellow) and a roll-out error message (red), which indicates an invalid value:

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Tooltip

Interface elements offer you a tooltip for easier identification.

Tooltips, which have an arrow icon on the left, contain additional information in tooltip cascades.

If you position the mouse pointer briefly over the tooltip or click the arrow icon, this information is displayed. The automatic display of tooltip cascades can be disabled.

If additional information is contained in the Help system, a link appears to the corresponding Help topic in the cascade. If you click on the link, the corresponding topic opens in Help.

The following figure shows a tooltip with opened cascade:

4.2.2 Using the Help

Opening the Help system

You can open the Help system in the following ways:

1. In the "Help" menu, select the command "Show help" or press <F1> to display the corresponding help for the respective context.

1. Click on the link in a tooltip cascade to go directly to an additional point in the Help system.

Navigation via the toolbar

Click the "Show/hide table of contents" button on the left of the toolbar to show/hide the navigation area with the table of contents, search functions, index and favorites.

Use the "Forward" and "Back" buttons to display previous Help topics again.

Click on the "Display start page" button to return to the start page of the Help system.

Navigation via the menu

The Help system has its own menu containing the menu items "Examples", "See also", "History"

and "Extra".

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^Examples

If available, examples are provided on the topic currently opened.

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^{See also}

If they exist, you will also find additional help topics here whose content is related to the current topic.

Select a topic from the list to obtain additional information.

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^History

Select a topic that you have recently looked at in order to return to it.

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^Extra

Select the "Glossary" command to call up the glossary. The glossary contains explanations on important terms in alphabetical order.

Finding help topics based on the index

1. Click the "Show/hide table of contents" button in the help toolbar.

The table of contents is displayed and the "Index", "Search" and "Favorites" tabs are visible.

2. Open the "Index" tab.

3. Enter the search term in the input box or select the search term from the list of key words.

4. Click "Display".

Full-text search

1. Click the "Show/hide table of contents" button in the help toolbar.

The table of contents is displayed and the "Index", "Search" and "Favorites" tabs are visible.

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2. Open the "Search" tab.

3. Type in your search term in the text box.

4. Refine your search if necessary using additional criteria:

― Select "Search previous results" to start an additional search operation of your last search results only.

― Select "Search for similar words" to find words that differ only slightly to your search term.

― Select "Search titles only" to obtain exclusively results that contain your search term in the title.

The contents of the Help topics are not taken into consideration during the search.

5. Click on the arrow icon on the right of the search field to use logic operations. The following logic operations are available:

― Combine two or more search terms using the "AND" operator to find only Help topics that contain all the words searched for in the text.

― Combine two or more search terms using the "OR" operator to find only Help topics that contain one or more of the search terms in the text.

― Combine two or more search terms using the "NEAR" operator to find only Help topics that contain directly associated terms (eight words).

― Precede a word with the "NOT" operator to exclude Help topics from the search that contain this word.

6. Click on "List topics" to start the search.

The results are now listed with title, position and grade. The "Position" column contains the chapter in which the Help topic found is located. Sorting according to grade takes place in accordance with the position of the Help topics found in the table of contents and in accordance with the hits in the Help topics.

Using favorites

You can save individual help topics as favorites. This saves you searching for the help topic a second time.

To save a help topic as a favorite, follow these steps:

1. Open the help topic or the chapter you want to save as a favorite.

2. Click the "Show/hide table of contents" button in the help toolbar.

The table of contents is displayed and the "Index", "Search" and "Favorites" tabs are visible.

3. Open the "Favorites" tab.

4. Click "Add".

The help topic or chapter is saved as a favorite and is available the next time you open the help system.

To open a help topic saved as a favorite, follow these steps:

1. Click the "Show/hide table of contents" button in the help toolbar.

The table of contents is displayed and the "Index", "Search" and "Favorites" tabs are visible.

2. Open the "Favorites" tab.

3. Select the topic you want to open from the list.

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4. Click the "Display" button.

To remove a help topic from the favorites list, follow these steps:

1. Click the "Show/hide table of contents" button in the help toolbar.

The table of contents is displayed and the "Index", "Search" and "Favorites" tabs are visible.

2. Open the "Favorites" tab.

3. Select the topic you want to remove from the list.

4. Click the "Remove" button.

Printing information

You can either print all the contents of the Help system or individual topics only. To mark the topics you would like to print, follow these steps:

1. Click the "Print" button. The table of contents opens in a separate window.

2. In "Print help topics", tick the folders and Help topics you would like printed.