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Getting Started
Using the Documentation 0.1
Product documentation
We recommend that before you start to use the documentation provided with
Analyst’s Notebook you familiarize yourself with the product by reading the
Analyst’s Notebook 7 Quick Start Guide, which introduces the basic concepts of
creating charts.
The Analyst’s Notebook 7 User Guides do not cover all of the features of the
product. Instead, they comprise a series of worked examples to demonstrate how
the features may be used in real situations. These guides are aimed at providing
information about which features best suit different situations and how you might
use them to approach specific problems.
The online help covers all of the features of Analyst’s Notebook. It contains
information on how to use the features. It also provides context-specific help for all
of the fields and options in each of the dialogs. It does not include any worked
examples as these are provided in the Analyst’s Notebook 7 User Guides.
The Analyst’s Notebook product documentation comprises:
• i2 Analyst’s Notebook 7 Quick Start Guide
This is a short guide that introduces the basic concepts of Analyst’s Notebook.
It is advisable to read this guide before you start to work through the examples
in the different volumes of the Analyst’s Notebook User Guide.
• i2 Analyst’s Notebook 7 User Guide: Creating Charts
The Analyst’s Notebook 7 User Guide comprises three volumes. This volume
is devoted to producing charts manually. It provides the building blocks for
understanding the fundamentals of Analyst’s Notebook and it would be
beneficial for you to work through it regardless of whether you intend to create
charts manually or import most of your data.
• i2 Analyst’s Notebook 7 User Guide: Importing
This volume describes how to import data from text files, including how to
create import specifications.
• i2 Analyst’s Notebook 7 User Guide: Customizing and Analyzing
In this volume, you are introduced to more advanced features of the software. It
describes how to create and maintain templates, including the ability to define
new types and set other chart properties. This volume also covers the features
that allow you to tidy up your chart for presentation purposes, and to learn all
about the analysis tools available in Analyst’s Notebook.
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