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Summary

Important Observations

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

• 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 now delivered from the LANSA Documentation web site, and will be displayed in your default browser.

• The Search tab in a document is used to search a selected guide.

• A link at the bottom of each help page will take you back a level.

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.

• Each help page contains a link to the section it is part of. Each section contains a link to the home page for the guide.

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.

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