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Using Cumulus Help
The central component of the Cumulus user assistance is Cumulus help.
Canto offers different editions of Cumulus and various add-on products. This help covers the functionality of Cumulus Workgroup and Enterprise employing the Desktop Client or the (Web) Server Console. Functions and feature that are available with certain editions or add-product only are denoted.
The Cumulus Web Client and Cumulus Portals provide own help systems. For an overview on the help available for different Cumulus components and releases, see help.canto.com. How to install Cumulus editions is described in the corresponding Installation Guides. These guides also contain descriptions on how to register and activate add-on products.
TIP: Are you a Cumulus newbie?
Then you should start with the Quickstart Guide.
This help is organized just like a book:
• To page through, use the arrows at the top right.
• To browse chapters, click the Contents icon. The table of contents entries in the form of an expandable/collapsible tree view are displayed. Closed folder icons represent TOC entries that have subentries. To open such a TOC entry, click the folder icon. To view a topic, click its entry. The corresponding topic is displayed.
• To find an item via index, click the Index icon. A list of topics is displayed. Scroll to find the index entry you want.
• To search for a specific word, enter it in Search field. Type the words you want to find and hit Enter or click on the magnifying glass icon. A list of topics is returned.
Note that all search words and phrases are combined with “and”. Entering Canto Cumulus will result in all topics that contain Canto AND Cumulus. Wildcard (*) and phrase searching are supported. To search for a specific phrase that consists of more than one word, enclose the words with double quotation marks. The words in quotation marks as one search term. Entering “Canto Cumulus” will result in all topics that contain the string Canto Cumulus (i.e. the words Canto and Cumulus separated by a space).
Different from a book some text sections are hidden and only denoted by headings with a triangle arrow at the right side. To toggle the display on and off, click the heading. Try it below!
TIP: Be up to Date
Load Cumulus Help from the Canto website, where the latest updates will always be available. (Help > Source > Online)
Do you prefer reading on paper? Click the Print icon in the top right corner and have the current topic printed.
Tell us what you think! We are committed to providing you with high quality documentation and you can help us to continually improve the documentation that we offer by telling us what you think. We appreciate all types of feedback and look forward to hearing from you. Write to us by clicking the email icon in the top right corner.
Cross-Platform Issues
Cumulus is a cross-platform application, meaning that it runs on Windows® and Mac® OS X (Macintosh®) systems. Though the program’s features are identical in each version, portions of the user interface differ due to operating system or keyboard conventions. These differences are denoted or explained when necessary and assumed otherwise (e.g., the difference between “maximizing” a window in Windows, and “zooming” a window in the Mac OS X is not explained).
 This icon denotes what pertains to Mac OS X only.
 This icon denotes what pertains to Windows only.
User Interface Item Conventions
To differentiate user interface items – buttons, menus, text fields, etc. – from surrounding text, those items are displayed in bold. For example:
“Click Open.”
This example means to click the Open button.
Another example: “Select File > Open to open a file.”
This example means to select the Open item from the File menu.
Cumulus Step by Step
Instructional steps are identified by numbers:
 
1. This would be the first step (and could be the least as well).
2. This would be the next step (and could be the least as well).
Copyrights
CU-C-1115-H-Z-1