Using the Folio Views Help System

Folio Views has its own excellent and comprehensive help documentation this can only be accessed through using the Folio Views program so in order to be able to use it, you must first become familiar with using the program, hence the PEP-Help Manual.

If you have read the PEP-Help Manual, worked through some of our tutorials and become familiar with the program then you are ready to use the Folio Help documentation. Depending on the type of installation process, the PEP-Help documentation will be available on hard disc drive, if you did a full install, on the CD if you did a partial install, and on your Network server if you are a network user.

     Accessing Help

Once you have Folio Views running there are four primary methods for accessing Folio Help:

1. Press F1. Help on the current dialog or menu item appears. Use this method for quick help on a specific item or to open Help before performing a search.

2. Choose Contents from the Help menu. The contents listing for Help appears. Use this method to browse for the information you need.

3. Choose "How Do I?" from the Help menu. The "How Do I?" list appears. Use this method when you want a topical listing of tasks that you can perform in Folio Views.

4. Open the FOLIOHLP.NFO infobase in Folio Views. Click on the Contents button to go to the contents listing, search this infobase using the query templates, or browse the infobase using the Contents pane. Use this method when you want to take full advantage of the Folio Views interface while using the help file.

     What to do Next

Here are a number of steps to help you use the Folio Help infobase.

     After you have pressed F1, maximize the Folio Help window by clicking on the maximize button on the Folio Help Title bar.

     Maximize the Folio 4 Infobase window by clicking on the maximize button on the Folio Help window Title bar.

     Click on the Tab. Your screen will look like this

     Double-click on the top title : Folio 4.2 Help Infobase.

     Click on a topic or scroll through the text

     To close Help, choose Exit from the File menu. Folio Help will close; Folio Views will remain open.

     Finding a Topic In Help

The Help infobase is organised to help you find information several different ways.

• Use the Contents List for a high-level overview of the infobase. Follow the links in the Contents list to topics that you need assistance on.

• Use the Application Overviews (available from the Contents list) to quickly review the purpose and primary options of any of the included applications (such as Folio Views).

• Use the How Do I list to locate information on common tasks that you may perform in Folio Views. The How Do I list is organised topically, with tasks listed beneath the topics.

• Use the Contents pane to locate specific information on all standard menu items. Expand the heading for an item (such as the Folio Views reference) by double-clicking on the to show additional information. When you locate the information you need, double-click the heading in the table of contents to go there. View the Contents pane by choosing the Browse tab or the Contents tab at the bottom of the window.

     Use the PEP customized dialogs easily accessed by selecting the following icons:

        With these different custom templaces, you can have alternative ways of searching the infobase and focus on the information you need. The PEP custom dialogs are located on the Toolbar at the top of your screen. .

• Use the Query dialog to search the infobase. This dialog allows you to enter natural-language style queries without understanding the Folio Views query syntax. It has the added benefit of ranking the information that it finds in the Hit List pane (choose the All tab or the Hit List tab at the bottom of the window to view the Hit List). Choose Query from the Search menu to access this dialog.

• Use the Advanced Query dialog to search the infobase. This dialog provides the most freedom in how you construct your searches, but requires that you understand the Folio Views query syntax. Choose Advanced Query from the Search menu to access this dialog.

Press B to return to previous text or Topic
Press C for Contents