Summary

Summary

Important Observations

• When you logon to LANSA, you select the partition, language and task ID to be used. The LANSA Administrator will create profiles and authorities to control access to LANSA.

• LANSA can be started from the LANSA desktop folder or by using the Window's Start menu.

• The LANSA documentation contains a standard toolbar to access all the documents, or as single guides, SET and the Tutorials guides.

• The Search tab in a document is used to search the currently open guide or group of guides.

• You can find the location of a searched item in the Contents tab.

• The Browse button on the documentation toolbar opens the User Assistance window that allows you to search all LANSA guides.

Tips & Techniques

• Remember to use the F1 online help while using LANSA and these tutorials. There is online help throughout the user interface.

• LANSA provides a wide range of user, developer, administrator and technical documentation, as well as documentation by product.

• Use the Tips Guide to learn about the specific search techniques available with Visual LANSA.

• Use the Contents toolbar button to open the specific guide whose topic you are reading. You can quickly review other topics in the guide or you can search within just one guide.

• Always open the contents list in the Contents tab before you do a search, if you want to find the location, in the documentation, of an item that has been found in a Search.

• If you want to narrow your help topics search to a single guide, simply use the Contents toolbar button to open that guide in its own window. Once the guide has opened, use the Search tab to search within the guide that is opened.

What I Should Know

• How to start Visual LANSA.

• How to logon using a specific partition, language and task ID.

• How to open the LANSA documentation and use the documentation toolbar.

• How to use F1 context sensitive help. (F2 context help will be tried later in this fundamentals tutorial.)

• How to search all LANSA guides or how to search a single guide.

• That you need to open the contents list before doing a Search, in case you want to find the topic in the content list.

• The initial set of personnel system demonstration objects in the Active Partition were loaded using the partition initialization.