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KnowItAll Software Training                                  

General Features

 

 

 

General Features

Introduction to the Basic Applications in the KnowItAll Informatics System     Purpose This exercise demonstrates the features of the KnowItAll environment.

Objectives   This exercise will teach you: ➢ How to open individual KnowItAll applications ➢ How to access on-line help ➢ How to transfer information from one application to another

 

Training Files Used in This Lesson

•    Cholesterol.dsf

KnowItAll Applications Used

•     BrowseIt

•     ChemWindow®

•     SearchIt

•     ReportIt

 

 

Background

 

All KnowItAll solutions are designed using a unique architecture that allows for the seamless transfer of information from one software tool to another without having to leave the main interface.

 

 

 

 

The KnowItAll Environment

 

	Action	Result
1	Open the KnowItAll Informatics       System by double-clicking its icon on the desktop.	The KnowItAll Informatics System automatically opens to the BrowseIt application. This application offers access to a web community designed especially for KnowItAll users and access to training movies and other information. Notice the KnowItAll interface integrates a series of software applications within logically grouped toolboxes, so the user can move from one task to the next and transfer information from one application to another. As you move throughout the KnowItAll Informatics System, notice that certain screen elements are shared by all applications (e.g., Title and Menu bars; Back/Forward buttons; Transfer/Return to bar; and Applications toolboxes).
2	Explore the online Help.	Open the Help menu and choose KnowItAll Help and Training. This leads you to the online Help site.
3	Examine the contents of the File, License and Help menus.	All KnowItAll Informatics System applications share the same Menu bar, located beneath the Title bar at the top of the application's window. The contents of the Menu bar change to reflect the current application as you move throughout the KnowItAll Informatics System. All applications include File, License, and Help menus. Other menus become available depending on the capabilities of each application.
4	Click each toolbox title in the Applications toolbox area on the left edge of the application window.	Depending on the edition(s) you have, this area can have Basics, Data, Spectral Processing and Spectral Analysis. Click a toolbox title to open it.   Click icons within the toolboxes to open and explore different KnowItAll applications.
5	Navigate to the Basics toolbox, then open the ChemWindow application by clicking its icon	The application opens to a blank drawing pane.

 

 

 

 

	Action	Result
6	Choose File > Open.   Navigate to KnowItAll Training Files > 1 - General Features.   Open Cholesterol.dsf.   Note: The Files of type filter on the Open dialog box allows you to specify which file types are displayed.	The structure opens in the drawing area. A tab with the structure’s name is added. Multiple tabs can be open at the same time.
7	Observe that the Transfer to bar (below the menu bar) now shows icons of the applications you can now transfer the structure to.	You can use the Transfer to bar to transfer information or objects from one application to another in KnowItAll. The bar displays all t applications that can accept selected information or objects from the application that is currently in use.

 

 

 

 

	Action		Result
8	Click SearchIt in the Transfer to bar.		The structure is transferred to the SearchIt application.
9	Click the KnowItAll Back button (located below the File menu).		You are returned to the ChemWindow application. As you use different KnowItAll Informatics System applications , the KnowItAll Back and Forward buttons and corresponding drop-down lists become available. •    Use the KnowItAll Back button to return to the most recently used application. •    Use the KnowItAll Back button drop-down list to go back several steps. Once the KnowItAll Back button has been used, the KnowItAll Forward button and its drop-down list become available and can be used to move through KnowItAll applications in the opposite direction.

 

 

 

 

	Action	Result
10	Click ReportIt in the Transfer to bar.	The structure opens in the ReportIt application, where you can create a standard report that includes this structure.