HTML5 Online Help

The Jade Platform provides the product information library, the white papers, and the Erewhon Demonstration System Reference in HyperText Markup Language 5 format (HTML5) in addition to Portable Document Format (PDF) format. By default, context‑sensitive help from the Jade Platform development environment 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/developer-centre/JADE2022/OnlineDocumentation/Default.htm

The Jade Platform HTML5 online help enables you to:

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

• Return to a summary of and access the documents in the 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, as shown in the following example of HTML5 for a Jade Platform 2022 release.

  

  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.

  When you click the Print icon at the upper left of a topic, only the topic itself is printed to fit the width of the output page. (Selecting Print from the browser menu also outputs the Contents pane at the left, which results in only about half of the page width for the topic, making it harder to read and necessitating a lot of scrolling.)

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

7.1.08 (Service Pack 7) and higher