How To Use The Index For Help

The Index is a master index of all subjects in the Collect! knowledge base. Collect! does a search when it builds the help pages and compiles everything it finds and builds pages for. You can pick a letter of the alphabet to see entries for each topic.

Pull down the Help menu and choose Index to get to the Index or select the Index button at the top of a help page.

If you are viewing a page that you found through the Index, press the BACK button in your browser to return to the Index page.

You can page down the list or look at the left side of the screen for a quick list of all the topics on the page. Click on an entry and it will take you to the help page or topic.

It is helpful to know some details about the way Collect! displays the topics it found.

Entries in the Master Index contain two or three parts.

First - the topic

Second - a further defining of the topic

Third - a document containing a reference to the topic

For Example:

Report

This discourse is a simple reference to the topic, Report.

Select it to go to a document called "Report"

Reports Design Formatting Dates

This is a reference to a topic, Reports Design, and a "subtopic", Formatting Dates.

When you select this, you will go to a document about Formatting Dates. The reference, Reports Design, is to help direct you to pages that have information about designing reports.

Reports Design Variables - How To Use Variables

This is a reference to a topic, Report Design, a subtopic, Variables and the document that this topic is contained in, How To Use Variables.

When you choose this, you will open a page called "How To Use Variables" and the section on Variables will be brought to your attention.

Use these ways that Collect! "refines" its results to help you decide which subject looks most like what you need to find help on. Use every part of the given line to give you clues. Since some topics are very complex and you are in a sense, "mining the knowledge base" for answers. Happy Gold Digging!

See Also

- Using the Help System