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 icon

.
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 navigation, 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 
icons. You can use these icons 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 icon

.
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 the location of a topic in the contents view, on
the topic toolbar, click the
Show in Table of Contents icon

.
Links to related topics
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.
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, breadcrumb links indicate the location
of the topic in the hierarchy of the help contents. To go to the corresponding
topic, click a breadcrumb 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 icon

.
Tip: To keep the contents view synchronized with the displayed
topic, in the contents view toolbar, click the
Link with
Contents icon

.