Appendix A: OfficePower Publications

Contents

• OfficePower Publications
  • OfficePower 2001 Installation Guide (TW000095)
  • OfficePower 2001 Release Notes (TW000094)
  • OfficePower 20/20 (TW000084)
  • OfficePower Administrator's Guide (TW000065)
  • OfficePower Archive User Guide (TW000107)
  • OfficePower Backup and Restore (TW000088)
  • OfficePower FormEdit Tool Guide (TW000111)
  • OfficePower Features Guide (TW000110)
  • OfficePower for Windows (TW000064)
  • OfficePower for Windows Installation Guide (TW000097)
  • OfficePower Internet Gateway Administrator's Guide (TW000103)
  • OfficePower Mail (TW000083)
  • OfficePower Mail and Communications Administrator's Guide (TW000070)
  • OfficePower PowerConverters (TW000086)
  • OfficePower PowerGraph (TW000089)
  • OfficePower PowerSearch (TW000091)
  • OfficePower PowerWindows/X-OL (TW000092)
  • OfficePower Task Manager (TW000112)
  • OfficePower UDAP (TW000090)
  • OfficePower User's Guide (TW000066)
  • OfficePower Web Administration Guide (TW000113)
  • OfficePower-Word (TW000055)
  • PowerIt: Installation Guide (TW000104)
• Format of Publications
• Publications in PDF format only
• Publications in PDF and WinHelp format
• Publications in HTML format
• Publications in OfficePower-Word format
• Changes for OfficePower 2001

This chapter describes the publications available for use with OfficePower.

In addition to the publications, context-sensitive online help is provided with your OfficePower software. This is available when you select the HELP key, or click the Help button if you are using OfficePower for Windows.

The OfficePower publications are provided on the OfficePower CD-ROM, which you can access from a PC. Even if you do not have the CD-ROM or a CD-ROM drive on your PC, you can still access the documentation by downloading it from your server once OfficePower has been installed.

OfficePower Publications

The OfficePower publications are listed below in alphabetical order, with a brief overview of their content.

OfficePower 2001 Installation Guide (TW000095)

This explains how to install and configure OfficePower 2001, and is written for competent UNIX® system administrators.

OfficePower 2001 Release Notes (TW000094)

This contains the latest amendments and additions to information published elsewhere, and is essential reading for administrators before starting to install OfficePower 2001.

OfficePower 20/20 (TW000084)

This is a guide to using the OfficePower 20/20 spreadsheet package. It covers the basics of 20/20 for new users and gives reference information for experienced users.

If you are new to OfficePower, you should read the OfficePower User's Guide first.

OfficePower Administrator's Guide (TW000065)

This is a guide for OfficePower system administrators. It describes the administrative tasks that you need to perform and provides solutions to common problems. You should be familiar with simple UNIX® commands and the basic techniques for working with OfficePower records before you start to use this guide.

You may find it useful to use this guide in conjunction with the OfficePower User's Guide.

OfficePower Archive User Guide (TW000107)

This guide explains how to install and use the optional product OfficePower Archive. It explains how a user or the administrator can use OfficePower Archive to download data in bulk from the OfficePower server to a PC, for storage on a CD-ROM or other media. The guide also explains how the archived data can then be accessed on any PC, without requiring connection to an OfficePower server. OfficePower Archive is based on the OfficePower for Windows client, and the guide assumes the reader is familiar with this.

OfficePower Backup and Restore (TW000088)

This guide is intended for system administrators of OfficePower systems. It describes how to back up and restore file systems on DRS 3000 and DRS 6000 servers.

OfficePower FormEdit Tool Guide (TW000111)

This guide describes the web forms editor that enables you to produce HTML forms for use with OfficePower Web, from existing OfficePower-Word forms.

OfficePower Features Guide (TW000110)

(This manual.) This guide summarises the features and benefits of OfficePower. It describes the product, its packaging, the new features introduced at each release, and the documentation that gives more details on each of these features.

OfficePower for Windows (TW000064)

This guide is intended for users of OfficePower for Windows, which enables you to use OfficePower in a Windows desktop environment. It provides instructions to help you carry out OfficePower tasks using OfficePower for Windows and explains the features that are unique to OfficePower for Windows. This guide is designed to be used together with the OfficePower for Windows context-sensitive online help, which you access by clicking the Help button in OfficePower for Windows Workspace.

OfficePower for Windows Installation Guide (TW000097)

This guide explains how to configure the OfficePower for Windows server and then install and configure OfficePower for Windows on personal computers. It is suitable for anyone familiar with the Windows environment(s) installed on PCs.

OfficePower Internet Gateway Administrator's Guide (TW000103)

This guide is intended for readers with responsibility for administering the OfficePower Internet gateway, which provides OfficePower users with access to Internet mail and other related mail systems (such as cc:mail and MS-Mail). It explains how messages pass through the gateway, including how any conversions are performed. It describes how to install, configure and control the gateway, and how to troubleshoot problems. It also explains how messages must be addressed to pass through the gateway.

OfficePower Mail (TW000083)

This is a guide to using the OfficePower X.400 electronic mail facility. It covers sending and receiving mail, creating distribution lists, communicating with non-X.400 systems, Internet mail, mail filtering and using the OfficePower Directory.

If you are completely new to OfficePower, you should read the OfficePower User's Guide first.

OfficePower Mail and Communications Administrator's Guide (TW000070)

This guide is intended for readers with responsibility for administering an OfficePower X.400 mail system. It explains how to set up and maintain an OfficePower mail network and provides advice on handling problems. Additionally, this guide describes the OfficePower Directory Synchronisation product.

(Note - this manual also contains, in chapter 31, information on administering OfficePower Web in OfficePower/Xtra. Users of OfficePower 2001 should ignore this chapter and instead refer to the OfficePower Web Administrator's Guide.

OfficePower PowerConverters (TW000086)

This guide introduces the various converter packs that are available either with the OfficePower Base product or with optional packs, and provides step-by-step procedures for using the PowerConverters. This guide also lists the convertibility of standard features in the formats supported by PowerConverters.

OfficePower PowerGraph (TW000089)

This is a complete guide to using the OfficePower PowerGraph facility. It explains how to create a new record and add data, and how to create composite charts. It describes the online sample PowerGraph charts and how to customize a chart.

If you are new to OfficePower, you should read the OfficePower User's Guide and the OfficePower-Word manual first.

OfficePower PowerSearch (TW000091)

This is a reference guide for users and system administrators of PowerSearch. This guide explains how to use PowerSearch to find specific documents within collections of documents, and describes how to view, save, print and mail these documents.

Additionally, this guide contains descriptions of the PowerSearch system files for system administrators, and describes how to create and maintain document collections.

Additional information on new features of PowerSearch introduced in OfficePower 2000 will also be found in the OfficePower 2001 Release Notes.

OfficePower PowerWindows/X-OL (TW000092)

This is a guide for experienced Open Windows users wishing to access OfficePower in a Sun OpenWindows environment. It explains how to start and end an OfficePower session with PowerWindows/X-OL and describes the features that are unique to OfficePower when used with PowerWindows/X-OL. It also describes how to customize PowerWindows/X-OL.

If you are new to OfficePower, you should read either the OfficePower User's Guide or the OfficePower Administrator's Guide, as appropriate. If you need more information about OpenWindows, read the user documentation supplied with the product.

OfficePower Task Manager (TW000112)

This is a complete guide to using the OfficePower workflow application, Task Manager. (Task Manager was new to OfficePower 2000).

If you are new to OfficePower, you should read the OfficePower User's Guide first.

OfficePower UDAP (TW000090)

This guide is intended for users who are familiar with OfficePower and want to learn about the process of designing, creating and using user defined applications (UDAPs) and reports. It covers both simple and advanced UDAP features and describes the OfficePower report writer facility.

You should read the introductory chapter on UDAP in the OfficePower User's Guide before you start this guide. Additional information on new UDAP features introduced in OfficePower 2000 will also be found in the OfficePower 2001 Release Notes.

OfficePower User's Guide (TW000066)

This is the introductory user manual for OfficePower. It includes:

• General information about OfficePower such as folders, records and printing.
• Information on using PC applications with OfficePower.
• Information on specific applications in the OfficePower Base product such as the calendar, to-do-lists and how to use existing user defined applications.
• Information on the help system, file transfers, the work environment, and OfficePower permissions.

For information about electronic mail and word processing, see the OfficePower Mail and OfficePower-Word manual respectively. For information about creating your own user defined applications, see the OfficePower UDAP manual. For information about OfficePower’s Task Manager (new at OfficePower 2000), see the OfficePower Task Manager manual.

OfficePower Web Administration Guide (TW000113)

This guide is intended for readers with responsibility for administering OfficePower Web.

OfficePower-Word (TW000055)

This is a complete guide to using the OfficePower-Word word processor. If you are new to OfficePower, you should read the OfficePower User's Guide first.

Additional information on new features of OfficePower-Word introduced in OfficePower 2000 will also be found in the OfficePower 2001 Release Notes.

PowerIt: Installation Guide (TW000104)

This guide explains how to configure PowerIt on a non-OfficePower UNIX server, and how to install and configure OfficePower for Windows on PCs so that they can access UNIX applications and services on that server.

Format of publications

Four different formats are used for OfficePower publications:

• Portable Document Format (PDF)
• Windows Help
• HTML
• OfficePower-Word

Individual publications are available in one or more of these formats, as described later.

PDF format

Publications provided in PDF can be read and searched individually online, and you can print a high quality paper copy of all or part of a publication if required. You can access PDF files from a PC using the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is supplied on the CD-ROM but also freely available from Adobe (see the Web site http://www.adobe.com). If you have not already got Acrobat Reader installed on your PC or do not know how to obtain it, ask your system administrator for assistance.

Publications provided in Windows Help format can be searched individually in different ways, and each topic within a publication can be printed, though this format is not suitable for printing whole publications. To be able to use these Help files on your PC, the following files must be present in your Windows SYSTEM directory:

HDKCTNTS.DLL
HYPRFIND.DLL

If you have already installed OfficePower for Windows, these DLL files will have been copied to your PC. If you do not have them on your PC, you should copy the DLL files from public/docs/opwinhelp, where they are stored along with the Windows Help files. You must copy hdkctnts to C:\windows\SYSTEM\HDKCTNTS.DLL, and hyprfind to C:\windows\SYSTEM\HYPRFIND.DLL, where windows is the name of the directory in which Windows is installed on your PC (typically WINDOWS, Win95 or WinNT).

HTML format

Documentation relating to OfficePower Web and associated products is provided in HTML format, and can be read and searched individually online using a web browser.

OfficePower-Word format

Publications provided as OfficePower-Word documents are accessible via OfficePower from the folder public/docs.

Publications in PDF format only

The publications listed below are provided only in PDF. The files are installed on the OfficePower server during installation, in the public user filestore public/docs/opmanuals.

Publications in PDF and WinHelp format

The OfficePower publications listed below are provided as PDF and WinHelp files. The files are installed on the OfficePower server during installation, in the public user filestore:

• public/docs/opmanuals for the PDF versions
• public/docs/opwinhelp for the Winhelp versions

Publications in HTML format

The publications listed below are provided only in HTML. The files are installed on the OfficePower server during installation, in the public user filestore public/docs/ophtml.

Publications in OfficePower-Word format

Once you have installed OfficePower you can also access the following OfficePower-Word documents.

Documents in public/docs/Opreadme

Notes

1. These documents are provided for historical reasons only.
2. Staffware OfficePower Integration Utilities (SWOPI) and PowerFile Agent are not available on Sun SPARC systems.
3. Documents delivered into public/docs/OPreadme supersede any documents formerly delivered into public/docs

Documents in public/docs/STK.

If PowerKit is installed, this folder contains a number of folders and documents that comprise the documentation for PowerKit: Software Tool Kit (STK).

Changes for OfficePower 2001

The following publications were changed for OfficePower 2001:

OfficePower 2001 Installation Guide
OfficePower 2001 Release Notes
OfficePower Features Guide
OfficePower Web Administration Guide