Using Online Help for iData 2

Welcome to iData 2, the flexible, multi-use data management program! iData lets you collect and manage all kinds of written information.

Introductory Help Pages

There are two introductory Help pages, in addition to this one:

License Agreement and Warranty contains the standard legalese. It exists mainly to remind all the honest folks that there are two people who've put a lot of time into creating and improving iData 2, and we'd like to earn something from the effort. With a single product in a relatively small market, every sale counts, and the return has to justify the effort required to continue to improve the product (and to keep it working with new versions of the Mac OS). Please don't help others take it without paying for it.

New Features in iData 2.5 is designed for those who have been using earlier versions of the product. It summarizes the main changes between version 2.1 and version 2.5. Those features that are complex enough to require more detailed descriptions are included in the major Help topics described below.

Major Help Topics

Major Help topics are divided into two sections, each further divided into chapters.

Section 1 - General Help Topics covers basic information on how iData works and how to set it up. It is designed to make it easy for you to get the most out of iData, and to get it set up to match your personal working style. We strongly recommend that you read this section before you begin using iData 2. Even if you are an experienced user, you may find a little new, useful information there.

Section 1 covers the following topics:

    iData's Files and File Locations

    Entering iData 2 Serial Numbers

    The Datafile Window

    Key Commands for Toolbar Buttons

    Changing Commands Keys

    Setting Up iData 2 to Work With the Services Menu

Section 2 - Functional Help Topics is designed as a reference. It is made up of chapters that are organized around iData's menu structure, making it easy to learn how a particular menu command works. Because this section is designed as a reference, it may repeat some information that is contained in Section 1.

Chapter titles in this section include the main menu name, followed by a sub-menu name, if appropriate. While you should at least look over the chapter titles, you can put off a detailed reading of topics this section until you need to find information on a particular operation. Within iData, in many dialogs or windows, there will be a button that you can click to take you to the appropriate Help page for that function.

Chapters in this section are arranged in approximately the same order as the menus themselves.