The help page contains links to several resources. The first one is to an online help component (LDA help, explained in detail after the next figure). Furthermore, it provides links to the user manual (this file), the Examples.pdf (file that shows the functionality of the software with the aid of the published example data), and the example data that can be downloaded from the Tranche repository. The links to PDFs are provided to the home page and to local files that come with the installation package.
After the link LDA help had been clicked, a window containing the help component pops up.
The help component contains 4 parts:
1. | Information panel: It contains information about the current help topic. Cross links to other help topics are inside these pages. | |
2. | Tabs containing different ways to search for the desired help topic: | |
- | Table of contents: The topics are organized like in a table of contents in a document. | |
- | Index: The help topics are ordered alphabetically. | |
- | Search: Enables to search the help for words. | |
- | Favorites: Organization of favorite pages of the help. The user has to right click with the mouse in the tabbed pane of favorites and can add help pages to this menu. | |
3. | Navigation tree for the different tabs explained before. | |
4. | Control bar. This bar contains buttons for “previous page”, “next page”, “home”, “reload page”, “print”, and “print page setup” |