The help system contains the information that you need
to learn about and effectively use your IBM® Rational® software. To browse
topics, use the navigation features of the help system.
Help home page
When you first open the help
system, the help home page is displayed. 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 IBM, Rational, and product-specific Web sites
where you can find more resources and information.
Tip: After
you navigate from the help home page, to return to the page, in the
topic toolbar, click the
Home button

.
Navigating to topics
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 tree, either click the plus
and minus
icons
or double-click the topic titles. To open a topic, click its title.
Tip: To return to topics that you have viewed, in the topic
toolbar, click the
Go Back 
and
Go Forward 
buttons. You can use these buttons to
access the browser history of your current session, but you cannot
use them to go to the previous or next topics in the contents view.
Tip: If you opened many branches of the navigation tree and
want to return to the starting state (with all of the branches closed),
click the
Collapse All button

.
Index
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.
Tip: To return
to the contents view, at the bottom of the navigation pane, click
the
Contents tab

. To
find where a topic is located within the contents view, on the topic
toolbar, click the
Show in Table of Contents button

.
Links to related topics
A topic contains
an independent unit of information; for example, all of 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.
Tip: To find
additional information that is related to the current topic, browse
the topics near it in the contents view, and browse the links to its
related topics.
Tip: At the top of a topic, bread
crumb links indicate the location of the topic in the hierarchy of
the help contents. To go to the corresponding topic, click a bread
crumb link.
Tip: To decide whether to open a topic,
hover your mouse pointer over the topic link to display a short description
of the topic.
Synchronizing the contents view and topics
When
you follow a link from one topic to another, the contents view does
not change. To locate the current topic in the contents view, in the
topic toolbar, click the
Show in Table of Contents button

.
Tip: If you want the contents view to remain synchronized with
the displayed topic, in the contents view toolbar, click the
Link
with Contents button

.