If You Are a New AccuRev User

The AccuRev GUI provides extensive documentation in the form of a context-sensitive help system. This help not only covers the AccuRev GUI, but also provides access to the complete AccuRev documentation set, in both HTML and PDF format. The help can be invoked from the AccuRev Help menu, or from the Help button on the toolbar, for from the F1 key, anywhere in the AccuRev GUI.

If you click on Help > Help Contents & Manuals, AccuRev opens a browser that includes a navigation pane, containing Contents (TOC), Index, and Search tabs.

If you click on a Help button or the F1 key, or click on the Help menu option for “This Screen”, AccuRev displays context-sensitive help focused on the topic of interest. In this case, the navigation pane is collapsed to save screen space, but it can be displayed by clicking the Show Navigation button in the upper-left corner of the display.

Note: Once the Navigation pane has been opened, it cannot be closed, but you can click and drag its right border toward the left and make it almost zero width.

All documentation is provided in both HTML and PDF. Typically you search or browse to the information you need in the HTML. If you decide you want to view the PDF version of the current document, you click the PDF button in the upper-right of the Help window.

Also, Windows users have direct access to the PDFs through the Windows Start -> AccuRev menu.

Finally, you can access the on-line help system without starting the AccuRev client by using the following URL: <accurev_install>/doc/WebHelp/AccuRevHelp.htm