1. User Guide and Online Help
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  3. View release notes and other documents
  4. Use Help

Use Help

The Oracle Empirica Signal Online Help system provides information about pages, procedures for performing Oracle Empirica Signal activities, and conceptual and instructional topics.

The Help system is context-sensitive; that is, if you click the Help link on an Oracle Empirica Signal page, information about that page appears.

  • Help topics include underlined links that you can click to display more information.
  • Help topics remain open until you close them. You can leave the Help open in the background while you are using the application.
  1. In the left navigation pane, click the Help icon (Help icon) or click Help on an Oracle Empirica Signal page. Help for the page that you are viewing appears in a new browser window.
  2. To view the main help page, click Show Table of Contents at the top of the help page. The main help window includes a toolbar with the following buttons:
Button Description

Table of Contents

Display the table of contents for the Help system.

  1. In the table of contents, expand a top-level entry in the table of contents by clicking either its name or the closed book icon Closed book icon before its name. The icon changes to Open book icon
  2. Click a topic name to display the topic in the right-hand side of the Help window.

Search
To find help topics containing a particular word or phrase:
  1. Click the Search button (Search button) on the left.
  2. Select Search this book.
  3. Type a word or phrase and click the Submit button (Submit button).
  4. Click a listed topic to display it.

Download

Click the Download button (Download button) to download a PDF version of the help for offline use and printing.

Parent topic: View release notes and other documents