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edDesk (Rich Client) User Guide

User Guide to accompany the rich client version of edDesk. This User Guide is presented as PDFs, with accessibility tags. It is very large and has been broken into separate chapters for faster download.

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Each PDF opens with the following display settings:

  • Bookmarks. Some shorter files have the complete bookmark hierarchy displayed, others have a selected level of the hierarchy - compromising between amount of information and overload.
  • Single page.
  • Fit page - whole page is displayed, instead of being at 100% size.

Entire User Guide - 9.2MB


edDeskLotusNotesUserGuide_110807.pdf

Chapter by Chapter PDFs

Front matter - 287KB

This contains only the title page, disclaimer and acknowledgements.

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Frontmatter.pdf

Table of Contents - 443KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_TableofContents.pdf

Chapter 1: Introduction - 154KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch1_Introduction.pdf

Chapter 2: Publishing steps in a nutshell and how they relate to edDesk - 242KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch2_PublishingSteps.pdf

Chapter 3: Getting Started - Becoming familiar with edDesk screens - 333KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch3_Gettingstarted.pdf

Chapter 4: Views - 976KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch4_UsingViews.pdf

Chapter 5: Searching for articles - 527KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch5_Searching.pdf

Chapter 6: Creating an article that is ready for briefing out - 630KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch6_CreatingAnArticle.pdf

Chapter 7: Entering copy into edDesk - 592KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch7_EnteringCopy.pdf

Chapter 8: Formatting text - 404KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch8_FormattingText.pdf

Chapter 9: Including documents and images in articles - 566KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch9_IncludingDocumentsAndImages.pdf

Chapter 10: Article toolbar - Tools, New, Import, Export - 514KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch10_ArticleToolbar.pdf

Chapter 11: Using article tabs - 1.13MB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch11_UsingArticleTabs.pdf

Chapter 12: Creating hierarchical content - Related articles - 608KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch12_RelatedArticles.pdf

Chapter 13: Workflows - 678KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch13_Workflows.pdf

Chapter 14: Editing homepages - 825KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch14_EditingHomepages.pdf

Chapter 15: Housekeeping - Cancelling articles, replication, favorite bookmarks, updating an index - 681KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch15_Housekeeping.pdf

Chapter 16: Webifying your article - getting ready to publish on the web - 246KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch16_WebifyingArticles.pdf

Chapter 17: Printing edDesk content - 461KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch17_Printing.pdf

Chapter 18: Folders - 362KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch18_Folders.pdf

Chapter 19: Team tools - 235KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch19_TeamTools.pdf

Chapter 20: Non-technical administration of edDesk - 611KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_Ch20_Non-technicalAdministration.pdf

Appendix A: Creating simple views - 691KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_AppendixA_CreatingSimpleViews.pdf

Appendix B: Creating simple agents - 656KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_AppendixB_CreatingSimpleAgents.pdf

Appendix C: Using webforms - 603KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_AppendixC_Webforms.pdf

Appendix D: Troubleshooting and FAQs - KB

edDesk_UserGuide_edition1_AppendixD_TroubleshootingFAQs.pdf

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