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This guide is intended to help you discover features delivered with CALIDUS Portal.

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CALIDUS Assist

Searching for Help

Although all pages from your CALIDUS system link directly to the appropriate page in this CALIDUS Assist guide, you can search for help on anything in the system using the search bar. It depends on how you have CALIDUS Assist configured, but this search bar is normally either in the title at the top of the screen or in the toolbar on the left.

Did you know that you can activate this search at any time using a shortcut key combination? Hover over the Search bar now and you will see it tells you the hot-key combination, typically ALT-F or ALT-SHIFT-F. Hitting those keys together will activate the search box and you can type in what you're looking for. Be aware that these shortcuts are dependent on the browser that you are using, so check for compatibility first.

If you know the name of the page, just type it there and click the Go button. If you want to search for any text in the page, click the Search button instead, or just hit enter for CALIDUS Assist to do it for you. Typically, as you type, the search bar will quickly offer you some matches that might be what you're looking for - if it is, just click the suggestion and Assist will take you there.

Some tips on searching:

• If you enter multiple words (like "fixed drop scheduling") without quotes, the search routine will find you pages that match any of the words, but ordered in the most likely order (i.e. with most matches of most words)
• If there is a page called "fixed drop scheduling", you will be taken straight to it.
• If you enter your search with quotes, i.e. "fixed drop scheduling", it will find that specific phrase in the pages, rather than any of the words.
• If you enter plus instead of space i.e. fixed+drop+scheduling, you will only get pages in the results that have all 3 words in them, anywhere in the page, in any order.
• You can also control partial word matching with an asterisk. So let's say you are searching for a parameter called AUTO_SCHED something-or-other. Searching for AUTO_SCHED will not bring back any results, as there are no full words or phrases like that. But if you enter AUTO_SCHED_* instead, it will search for words starting with "AUTO_SCHED" and bring you back some matches.

Searching Tables

A lot of the pages have tables of data on them - this can be a bit difficult to see what you're after. So, in the cases where there is a large amount of data in tables, we have made the tables searchable.

On top of the table will be a search box. Type in what you're looking for and the table will be filtered to show all of the matching rows - that is, rows where any column contains that text at all, anywhere. This filters as you type.

Note that some data will be always be shown, like headers, or rows that the writers of the page have decided must always be shown.

You can clear the text out of the search box and this will display everything again - do this by either deleting it or use the provided clear button to the right of the search box.

Have a go below - maybe try entering "ap", then "app", or enter "fruit" and see the way it works.

Fruit	Some Text - this header row is always shown
Apple	Green apples
Orange	Not an apple
Pineapple	Also not
Grapefruit	Very big!
Banana	I like bananas, so I'm always going to show them
Kumquat	Interesting fruit
Grape	Small fruit
Tomato	Is this a fruit or a vegetable?

Translating

The toolbox contains a link to Google Translate to translate the page into a language of your choice. Select the language from the drop-down list, and Google will translate the whole page for you.

There will be a banner at the top showing the translation options after you have selected a language - simply click the X on the banner to return to the standard page.

Printing and Exporting

You can export pages from CALIDUS Assist using the Print as PDF or Download as PDF link. Where this appears depends on the style the Assist is configured with, but by default this link will be in the Toolbox menu on the left of the screen, or on the tabs at the top right of the screen.

You can export categories as a full document in the same way - all pages in that category will be included in the PDF in the order in which they are listed in the category.

We've typically also included a link in the description of categories where this will export as a document, and we also add the DOC button next to documents that you can download from the first page of Assist.