Online Help Resources
The ODTK Help system
The ODTK Help system appears in the Microsoft HTML Help Viewer, which uses components of Microsoft Internet Explorer to display help topics and navigational tools. The navigation tools are accessible from the following tabs:
- Contents - Click on the book and page icons to find the topic of interest.
- Index - Scroll down the list or begin typing the name of the index item in the text box. When the item you are seeking appears in the list, double-click it or highlight it and click the Display button. If the item is found on more than one help page, a window listing the applicable pages will appear.
- Search - Type in the word or phrase for which you wish to search. To specify an exact phrase, enclose it in double quotes; otherwise, any page containing all of the words in the phrase (not necessarily contiguous) will be listed. After typing in the search term, either press the Enter key or click the List Topics button.
- Favorites - This tab lets you bookmark help topics which you might want to refer to frequently. Clicking the Add button places the name of the currently displayed help topic in the list. To delete a topic from the list, select it and click the Remove button.
Context-sensitive help
F1 help for OD attributes
To display context-sensitive help for a property of an OD object, select it in the Object Properties window for the object and click the F1 key.
Help buttons for report and graph windows
Help buttons are available for the Static Product Builder, the Dynamic Product Selector, the Graph Designer, and the Report Designer. Click these buttons for context-sensitive help on the functionality in question.
Printable (PDF) documents
Several printable (PDF) documents accompany this version of ODTK, including a set of tutorials (Getting Started with ODTK) and documents explaining the mathematical and scientific background of ODTK. To access these documents, go to the manuals page.