Difference between revisions of "Open these docs from Analytica"

Latest revision as of 01:02, 23 May 2025

As you use Analytica on the Desktop, it's very handy to link to these Analytic docs online to find and learn about a particular feature or function. Here are four quick ways to do that.

Use the Find dialog to search docs online

To open the Find dialog, click in the toolbar, or press control+F.
Type into the search box the name of a function, feature, concept, or whatever you are looking for.
Click the on Docs button

It shows the docs page with matching title if there is one, or a list of search results.

Access from the Analytica Help menu

Inside Analytica, open the Help menu, and select User Guide, Optimizer, Tutorial, Docs Home page, or Functions by category. It opens the selected docs page in your default web browser.

Right-click on a Function name

In the Definition of a variable:

Double-click the identifier of a system function, say, NPV, to select it.
Right click to open the context menu
Select Docs help on NPV to open its docs page with a full description and examples:

Open Object view for a function from Definition menu

From the Definition menu, go down the menu hierarchy and select a function or system variable:

When you select a function, it opens an Object window with a description -- like this one for Factorial:

For more, click the blue link Docs help on Factorial(...) to open its doc page online.

History

Prior to Analytica 5.0, the first three options in the Help menu opened PDF documents instead of online pages.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-[[Category: Analytica wiki]]
+[[Category: Analytica Docs]]
-These are some of the ways you can open this Analytica wiki in a web browser from inside Analytica:
+As you use Analytica on the Desktop, it's very handy to link to these Analytic docs online to find and learn about a particular feature or function.  Here are four quick ways to do that.
-=== Open wiki from the Analytica Help menu ===
+== Use the Find dialog to search  docs online ==
-From Analytica's  '''Help''' menu, select '''Analytica wiki'''. It will open the  [[Analytica Wiki]] home page in your default web browser.
+:[[File:Find dialog with Open this wiki.png|400px]]
-:: [[File:Analytica wiki from Help menu.png|center]] In [[Analytica 4.6]] and earlier, the three top links, '''User Guide''', '''Optimizer''', and '''Tutorial''', open the selected document as a PDF. In [[Analytica 5.0]], select one of these options to open it as at [[Analytica User Guide]], [[Optimizer |Optimizer]], or [[Analytica Tutorial]] as part of this wiki. These wiki versions have several advantages over the PDF documents:  They contain numerous clickable cross-links; you can search them simultaneously using the search box (top right of this page); they are continuously updated; and you can comment on them or improve them yourself in the wiki.
+# To open the [[Find dialog]], click [[File:Find magnifying glass icon.jpg|20px]] in the [[toolbar]], or press ''control+F''.
+# Type into the search box the name of a  function, feature, concept, or whatever you are looking for.
+# Click the '''on Docs''' button
+It shows  the docs page with matching title if there is one, or a list of search results.
-=== Right-click on Definition for Wiki help for a system function ===
+== Access from the Analytica Help menu ==
-To see wiki help for any function from inside Analytica.
+Inside Analytica, open the [[Help]] menu, and select  [[Analytica User Guide| User Guide]], [[Optimizer |Optimizer]], [[Analytica Tutorial| Tutorial]],  [[Analytica Docs| Docs Home page]], or [[Functions by category]]. It opens the selected docs page in your default web browser.
-# Select a function identifier, say, '''NPV''', in the Definition of a variable by double-clicking it.
-# '''Right click''' to see the context menu
+:: [[File:Analytica wiki from Help menu.png|center]]
-# Select '''Wiki help on NPV''' to open the wiki page with a full description and examples:
+== Right-click on a Function name ==
+In the Definition of a variable:
+# Double-click the identifier of a system function, say, '''NPV''', to select it.
+# '''Right click''' to open the context menu
+# Select '''Docs help on NPV''' to open its docs page with a full description and examples:
 :: [[File:Right click on function identifier.png|center|frameless|Select function name, open right-click menu, and select '''Wiki help''']]
-=== Open Object view for a function from Definition menu ===
+== Open Object view for a function from Definition menu ==
-You can also open the wiki page for a function from the '''Definition''' menu. For example, select '''Factorial''' from the '''Math''' menu:
+From the '''Definition''' menu, go down the menu hierarchy and select a function or system variable:
 [[File:Definition menu and submenu.jpg|400px]]
-It opens an Object window looking like this:
+When you select a function, it opens an Object window with a description -- like this one for [[Factorial]]:
 [[File:Object view for Factorial function.jpg|400px]]
-To open its wiki page, click the blue link <u style="color: blue">Wiki help on Factorial</u>.
+For more, click the blue link <u style="color: blue">Docs help on Factorial(...)  </u>to open its doc page online.
+== See also ==
+* [[What are these Analytica docs?]]
+* [[Comments and suggestions for Analytica docs]]
-=== See also ===
+== History ==
-* [[What's new in this Analytica wiki?]]
+* Prior to [[Analytica 5.0]],  the first three options in the [[Help]] menu opened PDF documents instead of online pages.
-* [[Comments and suggestions for Analytica wiki]]