GrapeCity ActiveAnalysis Part 8: Documentation Tips

ActiveAnalysis Script 8 – Documentation Tips

This blog is the 8th in a series of blogs on ActiveAnalysis.

Part 1 Create an Analysis App from ScratchPart 2 Silverlight Viewer Sample and Pivot View ControlPart 3 Shapes and Trend Lines on ChartsPart 4 Filters
Part 5 Data WindowPart 6 More Shapes and PDF ExportPart 7 Toolbar

1) To access help content online… navigate to http://www.gcpowertoools.com

2) Select Support | Documentation This page has links to all of GrapeCity’s component documentation. Click on ActiveAnalysis Documentation:

3) You will see several “how to” topics in the User Guide:

Help can be also accessed locally or within Visual Studio too.

4) From the start menu, select GrapeCity | ActiveAnalysis | GrapeCity ActiveAnalysis Documentation.

5) If the documentation does not appear and you see the following screen, this happens because the Help Library agent has not been started already prior to clicking on the above link in start menu...

6) To fix this, for any local help file used in Visual Studio, from start menu… go to VS 2010 | Visual Studio Tools. Click on the Manage Help Settings ENU.

7) Click on 'Choose local or online help'.

8) Then select ‘I want to use local help’, and select OK.

9) Now select ‘ Install content from disk’ and Navigate to ActiveAnalysis install directory and select the msha file.

10) Click Add and press Update

11) Once that is done, you can go to the start menu and click on the link and it will work. Once again, this happens because the Help Library agent has not been started already prior to clicking on that link in start menu…Note, in addition to the Class Library documentation, there is a User Guide and a Developer Guide.

12) Documentation is also integrated Within Visual Studio, select Help | View Help

13) Note the awesome user walkthroughs, my favorite ...

14) If you are just getting started with ActiveAnalysis, check out ‘How to Use ActiveAnalysis’:

15) But wait, there’s more! Check out the Developer’s Guide with even more “How to”, Samples and Walkthroughs…

16) There is a wealth of information in the documentation, plenty to get you going if you are just starting and plenty of advanced topics for the experienced user and developer.

We will be looking at creating a BI Dashboard programmatically in Part 9.

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