Getting Help

Oracle Applications provides you with a complete online help facility.
Whenever you need assistance, simply choose an item from the Help
menu to pinpoint the type of information you want.



To display help for a current window:
1. Choose Window Help from the Help menu, click the Help button
on the toolbar, or hold down the Control key and type ’h’.

Example

A web browser window appears, containing search and navigation
frames on the left, and a frame that displays help documents on the
right.
The document frame provides information on the window
containing the cursor. The navigation frame displays the top–level
topics for your responsibility, arranged in a tree control.
2. If the document frame contains a list of topics associated with the
window, click on a topic of interest to display more detailed
information.
3. You can navigate to other topics of interest in the help system, or
choose Close from your web browser’s File menu to close help.
Suppose you are using Oracle General Ledger and are in the Define
Budget Organization window. You want to know how to create a
budget organization using this window. Choose Window Help from
the Help menu to display a help on this topic.
 To display online help for any of the Oracle Applications products:
1. Choose Oracle Applications Library from the Help menu.
A web browser window appears, containing search and navigation
frames on the left, and a document frame on the right.
2. In the navigation frame, click on the name of a product family to
display a list of products in that family. Click on a product name to
display the list of top–level topics in that product’s online
documentation.
3. Click on a topic of interest. Topics preceded by a plus sign (+)
expand to show subtopics. Help on the topic displays in the
document frame.
4. To collapse sections of the tree you previously expanded, click on
topics preceded by a minus sign (–).
5. When you are finished, choose Close from the web browser’s File
menu to close help.
Note: A topic called ”Library” and topics corresponding to
other products and product families are often included on the
navigation tree associated with a particular responsibility.
These topics function in a fashion similar to the Library tree
described here.
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 To display version information for Oracle Applications:
1. Choose About Oracle Applications from the Help menu.
2. An About Oracle Applications window appears on your screen.
The window provides details about the version of the Oracle
Applications components you are using, your login information,
and information about the current form you are using.
You can supply this information to your system administrator or to
Oracle Customer Support if you need to report a problem.
3. Choose OK to close this window.


Searching for Help

You can perform a search to find the Oracle Applications help
information you want. Simply enter your query in the text field located
in the top–left frame of the browser window when viewing help, then
click the adjacent Find button.
A list of titles, ranked by relevance and linked to the documents in
question, is returned from your search in the right–hand document
frame. Click on whichever title seems to best answer your needs to
display the complete document in this frame. If the document doesn’t
fully answer your questions, use your browser’s Back button to return
to the list of titles and try another.
The search syntax to use in constructing your query can be any of those
shown in the following table.

Use this syntax . . . To find files containing . . .
term the word ”term”
string* words that begin with ”string”
”words, and punctuation” the precise phrase ”words, and punctuation”
term1 OR term2 either term1 or term2
term1 term2
term1 AND term2 both term1 and term2
term1 +term2
term1 AND NOT term2 term1, but not term2
term1 –term2