Summary

Important Observations

• When you logon to LANSA as a Slave Workstation, you select the partition, language and task ID to be used. The LANSA Administrator will create profiles and authorities to control access to LANSA.

• When you logon to LANSA with a free trial version or with an Independent Workstation, you select Partition and click OK.

• LANSA can be started from the LANSA desktop folder or using the Window's Start menu.

• Documentation in the LANSA folder is a link to the documentation home page.

• LANSA documentation is delivered from the LANSA Documentation web site and is displayed in your default browser.

• The Search field in a document is used to search the same guide.

• The Search field on the Home page is used to search all the guides.

Tips & Techniques

• Remember to use the F1 online help while using LANSA and these exercises. There is online help throughout the user interface.

• LANSA provides a wide range of user, developer, administrator and technical documentation, as well as documentation by product.

What I Should Know

• How to start Visual LANSA.

• How to logon using a specific partition, language and task ID.

• How to open the LANSA documentation and use the documentation toolbar.

• How to use F1 context sensitive help. (F2 context help will be tried in a later exercise.)

• How to search all LANSA guides or how to search a single guide.

• Partition Initialize from the LANSA Logon dialog will load the shipped Demonstration Systems which includes the files used in training courses.