Greetings,
RANT "ON"
Normally a RunTime *does not* come with a help file.
Selecting Help from the top menu bar gives you only the About box.
From what I have been able to discover there is *no official* runtime users guide that explains how to use the engine without showing the development side items that cannot be done from the RunTime by the user, a huge oversight from my point of view...
That said there is one place that we found, "send report via email as an Acrobat PDF attachment" that when the "Send As" window popups up, there in the lower right hand corner is a "Help" button. When clicked upon, goes to the AS web site and downloads the small (6.6MB) help file. Now the help is great for setting up email, and it is nice to have, until you get into WinXP-SP2 and you run into the Security issue of having to "Unblock" the file, something a RunTime user knows nothing about. Since *everywhere* else *Help* is not available by default, then why can you get a Help file (for the development system) by going to the "Send As" dialog for emailing a report? If Help was not supported as a whole... then this should only be an "email setup/configuration" help and not a total system help, or it should be included in the RunTime and on the top menu bar. But if that is the answer then see the previous paragraph about putting even the small version of the development help system with a RunTime! ! !
/RANT "OFF"
Thanx, I feel better now,
Keith
RANT "ON"
Normally a RunTime *does not* come with a help file.
Selecting Help from the top menu bar gives you only the About box.
From what I have been able to discover there is *no official* runtime users guide that explains how to use the engine without showing the development side items that cannot be done from the RunTime by the user, a huge oversight from my point of view...
That said there is one place that we found, "send report via email as an Acrobat PDF attachment" that when the "Send As" window popups up, there in the lower right hand corner is a "Help" button. When clicked upon, goes to the AS web site and downloads the small (6.6MB) help file. Now the help is great for setting up email, and it is nice to have, until you get into WinXP-SP2 and you run into the Security issue of having to "Unblock" the file, something a RunTime user knows nothing about. Since *everywhere* else *Help* is not available by default, then why can you get a Help file (for the development system) by going to the "Send As" dialog for emailing a report? If Help was not supported as a whole... then this should only be an "email setup/configuration" help and not a total system help, or it should be included in the RunTime and on the top menu bar. But if that is the answer then see the previous paragraph about putting even the small version of the development help system with a RunTime! ! !
/RANT "OFF"
Thanx, I feel better now,
Keith