Step 3 F1 Context Sensitive Help

Step 3.  F1 Context Sensitive Help

In this step, you will learn about the context sensitive help available throughout the LANSA interface.

If you are not logged on to the Visual LANSA Development Environment, log on now as described in Step 2. Logon and Partition Initialization.

1.  Select the Repository tab. If you can't see the Repository tab, on the Home ribbon, select the View menu, then select Repository.

     Note that the Repository tab can also be displayed using the F8 key.

2.  With your cursor either on the tab or somewhere within the Repository tab, press F1.

     The context help for the Repository tab is displayed in the Help tab.

     You can view all the text using the scroll bars.

3.  Scroll to the bottom of the Repository Tab's text where you will see a topic with an up arrow Standard Editor Tabs. If you click this topic, you will be taken to the documentation's next highest level for the current topic. From this higher level topic you can select any link to drill down into other related topics.

     In this case, you can view all the Standard Editor tabs.

4.  Click on one of the links. The page for that link will be displayed. Return to your original page by clicking on the icon.

     If these links provides insufficient information, you can open the guide containing the topic which you are viewing. In this example it is the Visual LANSA User Guide.

5.  Click the blue book Contents button to open the Visual LANSA User Guide. It will open at the help text topic you are looking at. In this example it will be the Standard Editor Tabs.

5.  Close the Visual LANSA User Guide using the Windows Close button.

6.  From the File menu, select the New option, and select Field. Note that in this exercise you will NOT complete the create a new field process.

7.  The New Field dialog will be displayed.

8.  Notice that the cursor is positioned on the Name. Press the F1 key to display the online help for Field Name.

      Help for Field name will be displayed in the Help tab.

     Note: If the help text is larger than the Help tab's current size, you will not be able to enlarge the tab or use the scroll bars while the New Field dialog is open.

     The New dialog is modal. You must either close the New field dialog and then enlarge the Help tabs area or enlarge the Help tab before using the New dialog..

     You can also float any of the editor tabs as a separate window.

8.  Close the New field dialog.