Help

The Help system has an Index, a Table of Contents, a Search function, and an area devoted to the Help content itself.  The Index, Table of Contents, and the Interface Elements page all provide means to locate specific help topics quickly.  

 

 

The Interface Elements page contains a "click-able" image map that will link the various Graphical User Interface (GUI) elements to specific topics in the Help system. Every topic page has a link in the footer that will return the user to the Getting Started page.  Users are encouraged to click back and forth between the image map and the topics of interest to get familiar with the GUI.

 

The Table of Contents presents the Help system topics in a standardized expandable chapter type interface.  The book images each represent a chapter of topics that can be expanded to display the list of topics related to the chapter.  Simply clicking on the topic title will open the topic for review.

 

 

 

The index contains key words that can help a user locate a topic related to the search string.  For example a user can enter "visibility" in the index search box and get a listing of words like it.  The words are, in turn, linked to the topics containing them.

 

 

 

The search function provides keyword search capabilities against all of the Help system topics.  Results of the search operation are, in turn, linked to the topics containing them.