When you first open the help system, the help home page is displayed. This page includes links to important help topics, especially those that you can use to get started with the product. The help home page also links to IBM, Rational, and product-specific websites where you can find more resources and information.
.The help topics are
organized in a navigation tree in the contents view; for details about
how the topics are organized, see Help navigation.
To expand and collapse the tree, either click the plus
and minus
icons
or double-click the topic titles. To open a topic, click its title.
and
Go Forward
buttons.
You can use these buttons to access the browser history of your current
session, but you cannot use them to go to the previous or next topics
in the contents view.
.You can also use the index to browse
to topics. The index points you to topics that discuss a particular
word or phrase. To use the index, at the bottom of the navigation
pane, click the Index tab
. Either
type a term to find it in the alphabetically ordered list of index
terms, or use the Previous and Next links to browse the list. Click
a term to see its corresponding topic.
. To
find where a topic is located within the contents view, on the topic
toolbar, click the Show in Table of Contents button
.A topic contains an independent unit of information; for example, all of the steps to complete a task, a complete description of a concept, or a whole lesson in a tutorial. Most topics are related to other topics and include links to those related topics, either in the text or, more commonly, at the bottom of the topic.
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