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Viewing the Online Documentation

In addition to online help, NerveCenter is shipped with HTML documents that explain important concepts, help you learn to use NerveCenter, and provide answers to specific questions.

You must have a Web browser to view these files. You can use either Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. Using other browsers can limit your ability to take advantage of documentation features such as full-text search. Refer to Release Notes for the browser versions supported with this release.

 
  To use the online documentation:

1. From the Help menu in the client, select Online Documentation.

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   Tip    You can also open the documentation from your browser by selecting the Index.html file located in NerveCenter's installation/Docs directory. If you're using Windows, the documentation is additionally available from the OPEN NerveCenter program group on the Start menu.

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   The online documentation is displayed in a tri-pane window.

Following is a description of each pane in the tri-pane window:

• The Banner (top) pane contains the OPEN banner and several links. The pane contains links to the home page for the OPEN documentation, a search applet, and the instructions for using the documentation.
• The Navigation (left) pane lists all books, chapters, and sub-chapter headings in your NerveCenter library.
• The Contents (right) pane contains the contents of the item that you select in the left pane.

The following illustration shows a sample topic.

NerveCenter Online Documentation

 
  To view a heading or topic:

1. To expand the list and view a heading, select one of the closed-folder icons.
2. To view a topic within a heading, select a page icon.

   The contents of the topic are displayed in the right pane.

To facilitate navigation within the documentation files, each topic provides the name and a hypertext link to its previous and next topic, as well as to the book, chapter, and heading in which the topic is located. This information is displayed at the top of each page.

We highly recommend you read through the help instructions prior to using the NerveCenter documentation. The instructions can save you time and frustration when trying to locate critical information about NerveCenter.

 
  To get help on using the documentation:

  Select the Help link in the Banner pane of the online documentation.

The help topics are displayed. Read through the information provided to learn how to navigate and find information in the online documentation.

If you are not sure what book you need, use the full-text search feature to enter one or more terms and then search for topics that contain the text you entered. The following procedure describes how to perform a search.

 
  To search the documentation:

1. Select the Search link in the Banner pane of the online documentation.

   The Search dialog box is displayed.

   Search Dialog Box

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   Click the thumbnail above to view full-sized image.

2. Type the word alarm in the Terms to find field.
3. Select a number from the Maximum number of matching topics drop-down listbox. The number you choose determines the maximum number of topics displayed in your browser as a result of a search.
4. Select Search.

   The dialog box closes and the search engine parses the NerveCenter documentation for files containing the word alarm. After a brief delay, the browser provides the following information for each matching topic found:

   • Topic title -- Select this title to display the actual topic page.
   • Name of the book in which it is found -- Select this item to display the first page of the book.
   • Number of hits -- This number tells you how many times the specified word was located on the page.
   • The first couple lines of text -- This provides a preview of the information contained on the page.

During the previous search, the NerveCenter search engine located many topics containing the word alarm and displayed up to the number selected in the Maximum number of matching topics drop-down listbox. You can reduce the number of topics by adding more criteria to your search. The next steps describe how to narrow your search.

 
  To narrow your search:

1. Select the Search this documentation link in the Banner pane of the online documentation.

   The Search dialog box is displayed.

2. In the Terms to find field, enter the following two words separated by a space: alarm reset.
3. Select the All terms in any order button. This option forces the search engine to find both alarm and reset in a topic before listing that topic as a hit.

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   Note    If you select the One or more terms button instead, the search engine locates topics containing either alarm or reset.

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4. Select Search.

   This time, the browser locates fewer topics, and the topics it finds include information on both alarms and resetting.

Continue viewing the information as time allows, then close your Web browser.

Each NerveCenter book and paper in the library is also available as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file that you can open and print. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to open or print the PDF files. You can download Reader free of charge from Adobe's Web Site at the following address: http://www.adobe.com/

All PDF files are located in your installation\docs directory. Three quick reference cards are consolidated in one file named quickreference.pdf. In addition to the files in the installation\docs directory, PDF files for all books are also located in the root directory of your CD so you can print them prior to installation.

The following table lists the documents that ship with NerveCenter. Some documents are also shipped in print format, as noted in the table.

The NerveCenter Library