Navigating in QMF help
The QMF main help menu provides a list of general topics.
From this menu, you can choose more specific topic panels. Figure 4 shows how QMF help is organized.
Figure 4. QMF help is organized from general to specific topics
QMF help varies slightly in how it allows you to access information,
depending on what part of QMF you are using. When you press the
Help function key:
- In most parts of QMF, you see a menu related to the QMF panel
you are using. Select the topic or area of information that you
want to see.
- In Prompted Query or the Table Editor (QMF's mode for adding
or changing tables), you immediately see information specifically
related to the part of the process you are working on.
- While you are creating an SQL query, you see a table of contents
from which you can select the information you want to see.
- While you are working on form panels, you see information specifically related
to the field on which you are working.
- In most parts of QMF, additional information related to a QMF
error message will be shown.
The following functions are available on function keys to help
you navigate through QMF help:
- Exit
- Immediately removes all help panels and activates the underlying
QMF panel
- More Help
- Shows you a menu of panels that are related to the help panel
currently displayed (available for selected topics)
- Menu
- Displays either the most recently displayed menu, or the menu
for the underlying QMF panel
You can return through higher-level menus until you reach the
Help main menu by repeatedly pressing the Menu function key.
- Backward
- Scrolls backward through the panel
- Forward
- Scrolls forward through the panel
- Keys
- Lists the functions of the keys for the underlying QMF panel
- Cancel
- Removes one help panel at a time.
You can return to the underlying QMF panel by repeatedly pressing
the Cancel function key.
- Switch
- On help panels for some specific topics, activates the underlying
QMF panel- you can enter commands on the command line of the QMF
panel while the help panel is still displayed
