Welcome to Web-Based AASHTOWare Project™ Help

Welcome to the web-based AASHTOWare Project™ Help system. If you are new to this application, the information on this page will help you understand how the Help system works.

The Help system is context sensitive, which means that when you click the Help button on a component in the software, the system provides information on the functionality of that component only. Each Help page provides links to other Help pages containing related information.

Contents

The Help system also contains many topics that are more general in nature and not linked to a specific component in the software. You can navigate the entire Help system by clicking the Contents link in the top left corner of any Help page to open the Help explorer. You can search the entire Help system by typing your search criteria in the Search box on the toolbar and clicking the Go button.

The Contents pane is organized by business category and uses expandable and collapsible books and pages to display the list of topics available in the Help system. This pane helps you navigate through the Help hierarchy to find a desired category and subject.

Click a book to expand it and then click the page you want to see. The system displays the page in the right pane of the browser window.

Search

The Search pane provides a rapid full-text search of all the topics in the online Help. To perform a search, type your search criteria in the Search input field on the toolbar and click the Go button. To search for a phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes in the Search field.

The system performs the search and automatically opens the Search pane, which displays a list of the topics in which the search text appears. Topics are ranked in order of best match. Click a topic to display the page in the right pane of the browser window.

You can also perform a search in the Search pane itself by clicking on the Search tab.

To make your first experiences with the system easier and more intuitive, you might also want to review the Getting Started section of the Help.