Using the Online User’s Guide

JADE provides the JADE product information library, the JADE white papers, and the JADE Erewhon Demonstration System Reference in HyperText Markup Language 5 format (HTML5) in addition to Portable Document Format (PDF).

To access the online JADE Report Writer User’s Guide

• Select the User’s Guide command from the Help menu.

By default, context‑sensitive help from the JADE Report Writer is obtained from .htm topics in the HTML5 Web format of the product information. For details, see the UseJadeWebHelp parameter and the JadeHelpBaseUrl parameter in the [JadeHelp] section of the JADE initialization file.

Access the HTML5 online help in your browser at:

https://secure.jadeworld.com/JADETech/JADE2020/OnlineDocumentation/Default.htm

The JADE HTML5 online help enables you to:

• Access a specific topic in the Web format of the JADE product information library from the JADE development environment, by pressing F1 from the entity whose information you want to view.

• Return to a summary of and access to the documents in the JADE product information library at any time, by clicking the dark gray jade text (which acts as the Home function), in the upper left of your browser above the Contents pane.

• Click an image thumbnail on a Web page, to display the full-sized image. Conversely, to collapse an expanded image (for example, to reduce scrolling), click on the image again to restore the thumbnail format.

• Print a Web page with the image expanded to the full size, by clicking the Print icon at the upper left of the topic pane.

  When you have printed a topic that contains an image, the image is not minimized to a thumbnail until you refresh the display (by pressing F5, for example) or you navigate to another topic and then back to the topic that you printed.

For details about formulating search expressions in the JADE HTML5 help and printing a topic, see the Search and Print Tips topic, which is the second entity in the Contents pane at the left of your browser.

PDF Online Help

If you want to use context‑sensitive help to specific sections in the ReportWriter.pdf file (for example, if you have slow or restricted Web access or if you want to print a range of pages or all of a document), set the value of the UseJadeWebHelp parameter to false.

When you select the User’s Guide command from the Help menu, the Adobe Reader then opens the JADE Report Writer User’s Guide and displays the title page of the document on your monitor. Adobe Reader provides standard navigation features. For example, you can perform the following actions.

• Use the Page Up or Page Down key (or the scroll bar) to browse the document.

• Select a topic from the expanded document contents at the left of your monitor.

• To display pages side-by-side, right-click anywhere on a page of the document and then select the Continuous - Facing command from the popup menu that is then displayed. (To return to the original page display, right-click again, and then select the Single Page command from the popup menu.) This popup menu provides other navigation commands such as the Previous Page and the Find command.

• Click the magnifying glass icon in the vertical toolbar at the left of your monitor (or depending on your workstation settings, the horizontal toolbar at the top of your monitor) and then click the page that is currently displayed, to zoom in (enlarge) the display of that page.

• Select the Print command from the File menu, which displays the standard Print dialog that enables you to specify your print requirements (for example, that you want to print the current page or a range of pages).

• When the cursor symbol changes from an open hand to a hand with the index finger extended, click on the topic to which the finger is pointing (for example, a reference to another part of the document, enclosed in double quotation marks, or a topic displayed in the document contents displayed at the left of your monitor or at the front of the document itself). The selected topic is then displayed.

• Use the Find command from the Edit menu to search for any word, partial word, or combination of words in the document.

For more details about using a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, select the Complete Acrobat Reader Help command from the Adobe Reader Help menu. The Adobe Reader Help document that is then displayed provides extensive assistance in using Acrobat PDF files. For details about using Adobe Reader to view JADE documents, refer to "JADE Product Information Library in Portable Document Format" under "JADE Online Help", in Chapter 2 of the JADE Development Environment User’s Guide.