When you first open the help system, the help home page displays. This page includes links to important help topics, especially those that you can use to get started with the product. The help home page also links to other IBM, Rational, and product-specific websites where you can find more resources and information.
The help topics are
organized in a navigation tree in the contents view; for details about
how the topics are organized, see Help navigation.
To expand and collapse the navigation, either click the plus and minus
icons
or double-click the topic titles. To open a topic, click its title.
You can also use the index to browse
to topics. The index points you to topics that discuss a particular
word or phrase. To use the index, at the bottom of the navigation
pane, click the Index tab . Either
type a term to find it in the alphabetically ordered list of index
terms or use the Previous and Next links
to browse the list. Click a term to see its corresponding topic.
A topic contains an independent unit of information; for example, all the steps to complete a task, a complete description of a concept, or a whole lesson in a tutorial. Most topics are related to other topics and include links to those related topics, either in the text or, more commonly, at the bottom of the topic.