Finding Information


Overview

Protection! online Help is your comprehensive guide to work with the Protection! Control Center modules. As you work with Protection! Control Center, you probably already know what business task you want to accomplish—such as building and managing your products, creating and sending licenses to your end-users, and performing other licensing activities. Protection!'s Help and guides have the answers you're looking for. The types of documentation you can expect to find to help you with Protection! include:

Whether you're looking for help using a particular dialog box or looking for instructions on how to perform an activity, you can always find what you're looking for in the online Help. Protection! Help provides not only step-by-step instructions for each module, but also detailed descriptions of every control in every dialog box and Screen. Each Protection! module has its own Help. To find out how to use a module, select Contents from the module's Help menu or press F1 in any Screen or dialog box. In addition to the Protection! User's Guide (this manual), Protection! also includes other documentation and guides:


Press F1 for Help

If you come across a Screen or dialogs you don't know how to use, press the F1 key to see brief descriptions of the Screen or dialog box options. Frequently, F1 help topics have convenient links to related step-by-step instructions. From the F1 Help Screen you can search the module's F1 Help for information on other Screens, dialog boxes, or features—simply enter a keyword. Or, if you prefer to find information using a table of contents or index, click the Help Topics button in the F1 Help Screen.

Each Protection! Control Center module has its own online Help that will provide you with step by- step instructions. You can look up Help topics the same way you would in a book—the table of contents lists the topics in a logical order, and the index lets you look up topics by keyword. Protection!'s Help also lets you perform a search for any word or words in any topic.


Read the Protection! Guides Online

A typical installation of Protection! includes manuals that you can read online using Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. Having the Protection! manuals in this format offer the advantage of full-text search, as well as hyperlinks on the table of contents, index, and any cross-references. To access the online guides:


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Where to Go from Here...

In a typical installation of Protection!, the Protection! setup program creates several complete sample projects for a fictitious application called Demo Calculator. This Demo application is designed to be used as an environment in which you can learn how to use Protection! and explore Protection! in a safe training ground. Using the example of Demo Calculator you can follow tutorials that take you through examples of how to use the various components of Protection!.