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

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:

www.jadeworld.com/docs/jade-2018/Default.htm

The JADE HTML5 online help enables you to:

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.

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.