The Functional Tester documentation is all online. It consists of user guide documentation and API documentation. For important information on how to get started using Functional Tester, see Getting Started with Functional Tester.
For the Functional Tester tutorials, click Help > Tutorials Gallery on the Functional Tester menu. In the gallery, browse to the two Functional Tester tutorials, which are listed in the Do and Learn category. To do either tutorial, click the Start the tutorial link.
You can get Help from most dialog boxes or areas of Functional Tester by pressing F1. Some Functional Test dialog boxes and windows also have Help buttons you can use to display the Help on that dialog box or window. To display Help in the object map, the Verification Point Editor, or the Verification Point Comparator, use the Help menu within that component.
The Help Menu
The Help menu has the following options:
Welcome -- Displays the Functional Test Welcome screen.
Help Topics -- Displays the Help viewer with a Contents pane that lists all the Help systems available, including Functional Tester Help. To open the Functional Tester Help, click on the Functional Tester Help book in the table of contents.
Tips and Tricks... -- Opens a topic selector dialog box. To see topics about Functional Tester, select "Recording Troubleshooting and Tips" or "Testing HTML Applications."
Search -- See the Eclipse online Help for information on searching for Help in the Eclipse platform.
Web Resources -- Displays the Functional Tester Welcome screen with the Web resources for tips, articles, updates, and references to industry standards.
Tutorials Gallery -- Opens the Tutorials Gallery. In the gallery, browse to the two Functional Test tutorials, which are listed in the Do and Learn category. To do either tutorial, click the Start the tutorial link.
Samples Gallery -- Opens the Samples Gallery. In the gallery, browse to the Functional Tester Sample Project, which is listed in the Technology category.
Cheat Sheets -- Opens the Cheat Sheet Selector dialog box. To see the Functional Tester cheat sheet, select "Getting Started with Functional Tester."
Software Updates -- Connects you to the internet for software updates.
IBM Support Assistant -- Displays the IBM Support Assistant page, where you can search for IBM support, click on support links to access more specific IBM support topics, access IBM Support Assistant service, and display the IBM Support Assistant User Guide.
The Help Viewer
Functional Tester displays Help in the Help viewer, which acts like a browser. It is a separate window that is not docked to Functional Tester. You can move and resize the window. You can also minimize, maximize, or close the Help viewer using the window icons on the right side of the window banner.
The viewer contains two panes. The navigation pane appears on the left and the topic pane appears on the right. The first tab of the navigation pane is the Contents tab. Click on a topic name in the Contents to display that topic. The second tab, Search Results, displays the topics found when you use the Search feature. The third tab, Links, is used only by Workbench. The fourth tab, Bookmarks, can be used to display topics that you bookmark.
See the section below called Searching for Text for information on using the Search feature.
The topic pane has a pop-up menu which you can access by right-clicking within a topic.
The Help viewer toolbar contains the following buttons:
Go Back -- Goes back to the previous topic displayed.
Go Forward -- Returns to the previous topic displayed if you used the Go Back button. Does nothing if you did not use the Go Back button.
Show in Table of Contents -- Use to synchronize the navigation pane to the topic being displayed. For example, you might want to use this if you have followed links within topics, then want the navigation pane to reflect the current topic.
Bookmark Document -- Click to bookmark the current topic. That topic will then be listed in the Bookmarks tab in the navigation pane of the Help Viewer.
Print Page -- Prints the currently displayed topic.
Printing the Documentation
To print any topic in the Functional Tester User Guide or API Reference:
Click inside the topic.
Right-click and select Print or click on the Print Page button in the Help viewer toolbar.
Using the Functional Tester User Guide Index
The Index for the Functional Tester User Guide (Functional Tester Help) is included in the Table of Contents. To display the Functional Tester User Guide Index:
Open the Help.
Under the User Guide book, expand the last book icon, Functional Tester User Guide Index.
Click the Functional Test User Guide Index topic.
Use the letter key at the top of the Index to jump to the letter you
want to search. Once you jump to a topic, you can get back to where you
were in the index list by clicking the Go
Back button in the Help viewer toolbar, or right-clicking
in the topic and selecting Back.
Searching for Text
The Help viewer navigation pane has a Search Results tab you can use to find any word or phrase within the Functional Test User Guide and API Reference.
To search the entire list of topics under Functional Tester Help, including those in both the User Guide and the API Reference:
Click any topic in the Functional Tester Help Table of Contents.
In the Search field above the navigation pane, type the word(s) you want to search for.
Click Go.
The Search Results tab will list all topics containing that word or phrase. The percentage listed beside each returned topic indicates how good of a match that topic is for the searched text.
Click on a topic in the Search Results tab to display that topic. In the topic, the search text is highlighted in grey, making it easy to find the word throughout the topic.
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