How to use this help?

Navigation in the Online Help

The help navigation spans four areas: upper menu ribbon, navigation tree, lower menu ribbon, and topic pages to be displayed on separate tabs.

WebHelp GUI Overview

WebHelp GUI Areas

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Upper Menu Ribbon

This ribbon allows you to quickly advance to the Wibu-Systems homepage by clicking the logo. In the left area a separate menu provides links to selected areas on the Wibu-Systems website, e.g. download of software updates, support etc.

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Using the togmenu "Menu" symbol of the lower menu ribbon hides or shows the upper menu ribbon.

Navigation Tree

The topic structure is hierarchically ordered by a tree of directories. Directories may hold secondary directories and single topics. You open directories as you are used to in an explorer. A click on the topic opens the help page in the separate topic pages area.

To open multiple pages in separate Tabs see here.

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Using the nav_close and nav_open symbols you hide and show the navigation tree.

Lower Menu Ribbon

This ribbon provides a number of usefull navigation options, e.g. tabbed browsing. The following table lists existing symbols and functions:

Symbol

Description

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Quick Search

Quick Search allows you to quickly find first information. Insert the search term in the provided field and click the adjacent search symbol.

The general search page displays to be customized meeting your further search requests.

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Index

The Index provides an alphabetical list of topics that you can click to access information related to the topic. You can scroll through the list of topics or search for topics using the search feature (search "Search" symbol).

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Search

The Search provides a fulltext search in word basis.

Enter one or more search terms ('*' and '?' wildcards are supported) and click the "Search" button.

Separate controls allow you to set displayed results per page and to decide if searching for more than one word, whether the list displays hits for any or for all searched words.

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Menu

The symbol hides or demand shows the upper menu ribbon.

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Show / Hide

Some topic pages may hold so-called toggles, e.g. if listing FAQs. In this case, the symbol is active and you have the option to activate or deactivate all toggles.

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Feedback

Sends a feedback e-mail to Wibu-Systems asking for support. The topic name involved is automatically transferred to the e-mail.

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Print

Opens a print preview in a separate window for printing a topic.

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Bookmark

Allows setting a bookmark for a topic or copying the link information.

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Home

Navigates to the main topic node of the selected topic.

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Previous

Navigates to the previous topic in the sequence.

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Next

Navigates to the topic next in the sequence.

 

Tabbed Browsing

Tabbed brwosing allows you to open several help topics in a single browser window. For example, you can keep open the glossary all the time when using the help. You open help pages on new Tabs and browse by clicking the separate tabs or using a navigation element.

How to open a new Tab?How to open a new Tab?
How to navigate Tabs?How to navigate Tabs?
How to close a Tab?How to close a Tab?

Topic Pages

The Contents tab allows you to see the overall structure and organization of the online information. You can browse through the table of contents to find a topic or to see the relationship between topics.

In addition, a breadcrumb trail navigation box eases navigation in the online help.

If the active contents_topicsON "Jump labels" symbol is provided, you have the option to advance to subtopics as part of the topic page.