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Table of Contents
About this book.............................................................................................................................. 1
More information ........................................................................................................................ 1
Chapter 1 – Installing LinkOne WinView .................................................................................. 2
System Requirements .................................................................................................................. 2
Upgrading From Previous Installations....................................................................................... 2
Installing LinkOne WinView ...................................................................................................... 3
Installing a LinkOne License Code............................................................................................. 8
Chapter 2 – LinkOne WinView Administration ........................................................................ 9
Setting up Libraries ................................................................................................................... 10
Setting Notes Folders ................................................................................................................ 12
Setting Selection List Privileges ............................................................................................... 13
Installing Licenses and Security Keys ...................................................................................... 14
Customising the Book Menu..................................................................................................... 15
Setting the Startup Mode........................................................................................................... 17
Configuring Proxy Server Authentication................................................................................. 18
Installing LinkOne Books ......................................................................................................... 18
Accessing Books on a CD-ROM .......................................................................................... 19
Installing Books from a CD-ROM ........................................................................................ 20
Installing Books using the Internet ....................................................................................... 21
Keeping Remote Books Up To Date..................................................................................... 23
Duplicating a Book ............................................................................................................... 25
LinkOne Robot .......................................................................................................................... 26
Chapter 3 – Using LinkOne WinView....................................................................................... 28
Basic WinView Operations ....................................................................................................... 28
Starting WinView.................................................................................................................. 28
The WinView Window ......................................................................................................... 29
Opening a Book..................................................................................................................... 30
Navigating Through a Book.................................................................................................. 31
Printing .................................................................................................................................. 32
Finding and Selecting Parts....................................................................................................... 33
Searching by Part Number .................................................................................................... 33
Searching by Part Description............................................................................................... 34
About Selection Lists ............................................................................................................ 36
Adding Parts To a Selection List .......................................................................................... 36
Displaying a Selection List ................................................................................................... 37
Saving a Selection List.......................................................................................................... 37
Exporting a Selection List.....................................................................................................37
Customising the Display ........................................................................................................... 38
Viewing Pictures ................................................................................................................... 38
Panning Pictures.................................................................................................................... 38
Viewing the Entire Picture .................................................................................................... 38
Changing the Font ................................................................................................................. 38
Resizing the Picture Area......................................................................................................39
Customising the toolbars.......................................................................................................39
Further Information ................................................................................................................... 40
Mincom LinkOne WinView Reference Guide...................................................................... 40
More information
You will find more information about Mincom LinkOne on the web site at
http://www.mincom.com/linkone. There is also a Mincom LinkOne user’s mailing list that you
can subscribe to, called linkone-talk. This is a source of practical help from other users of
Mincom LinkOne. Information about how to subscribe is available on the web site.
System Requirements
The minimum system configuration for LinkOne WinView is:
• Personal computer running Microsoft® Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP
or Windows Server 2003.
• 64 MB of RAM
• 20 MB of available hard disk space
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or greater
Please Note that Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE and Windows NT are no longer
supported platforms.
8. Click Finish.
The LinkOne WinView installation is complete.
Before you can use LinkOne WinView, you must install a license code. For more
information, see Installing a LinkOne License Code.
For more information about LinkOne Licensing options, refer to Installing Licenses and
Security Keys in Chapter 2 of this manual.
Libraries can be configured using the Book tab in LinkOne Administration. A library is a
directory or drive location containing LinkOne books. LinkOne WinView can only access books
in the specified set of libraries.
You cannot nominate a directory that has not been created yet, because it will not
appear on the list.
If you select a library that is not a valid location (it does not contain any books),
Administration will display a message to that effect. The library will be accepted, but
the next time Administration is opened, if there are no books in a location, the empty
location will be deleted from the list of libraries.
Moving a Library
To move a library, use the Up and Down buttons on the Books tab.
The position of a library in the list is only relevant where the same book exists in multiple
libraries. In this case, LinkOne will search the list from top to bottom, returning only the first
occurrence of each unique book code and publisher code that it finds.
Disabling a Library
To disable a library, right-click the library and select Disable Library.
When a library is disabled, it will remain in the list of libraries, but none of the books in that
library accessed by LinkOne. This is particularly useful for laptop users who access books from
a network drive while in the office and also use books from a local drive when the laptop is
disconnected from the network.
Use the Notes tab to configure the location of notes and to configure permission for the LinkOne
user to create or edit notes.
Use the Selections tab to configure permissions for the LinkOne user to make selections or apply
a filter to the selection list.
Use the Licenses tab to install, examine, modify and delete licenses and security keys for the
WinView, Publishing System, and add on software.
Security Keys
Security keys determine secure book features are available in your environment. The publisher
of a LinkOne book may apply a security key to some features in a book to control the visibility
of those features when the book is distributed. Appropriate security keys will be provided by the
publisher if access to locked features is required.
Use the Book Menu tab to configure custom menu options on the WinView Book menu.
You can use a custom option to open a particular book, or if you have the DB Man application,
to open a particular equipment number.
The text box displays the custom options currently on the Book menu. The order in which they
appear on the list is the order that they appears on the Book menu.
• Click Add Item to add a new option to the book list. You can then enter the details of
the option in the Current Menu Entry section.
Use the Startup tab to configure the behaviour of WinView when it starts.
Use the Internet tab to configure proxy server authentication for LinkOne.
Some corporate networks provide access to the internet through an authenticating proxy server,
which requires a password before allowing internet access.
For LinkOne to access book libraries located on remote web sites through an authenticating
proxy server it is necessary to provide a username and password that will be accepted by the
proxy server.
5. Progress messages will be displayed as the books are copied. When completed,
LinkOne will display Installation Successful.
Viewer Settings control how frequently WinView will access the Internet to check for updates to
a remote book.
A specific remote library can be selected from the list of Active Libraries and Books, to which
the viewer settings will apply.
If All Libraries is selected, the viewer settings will become “global settings”, that will be
applied to all remote libraries for which specific settings have not been configured.
The remote library that the robot is trying to access must be configured. Robot Settings control
how frequently Robot will access the Internet to check for updates to a remote book.
The configuration of the Robot utility’s behaviour is defined in the Robot Settings Utility. This
utility is not part of Administration. To open the utility, click the Robot Utility icon from the
LinkOne program group, or select Start > LinkOne > Robot. The Robot Utility screen appears.
Starting WinView
1. Start WinView using Start > Programs > Mincom LinkOne > WinView, or from the
WinView icon in the LinkOne program group.
The LinkOne main window and Browse Books dialog appears.
All of the menus, buttons, icons and lists on the main display window are explained in the
Mincom LinkOne WinView Reference Guide. This guide briefly explains a few of the most
commonly used controls.
This guide describes the basic appearance of WinView. This may have been changed by the
publisher or your system administrator.
2. Select the title of the book you want to view. Click Open Book.
The first page of the book appears.
Use the blue arrow buttons on top right corner of the WinView display window to ‘flip’ forwards
and backwards through the pages of a Book. The Up arrow moves you one level up in the
hierarchy. If the Table of Contents is open, your current position in the book is highlighted.
To follow a link, double-click on an linked entry, LinkOne opens the page to which the link
refers.
If you have followed a Link to a new page, you can use the History buttons to
retrace your path.
LinkOne enables you to print selection lists, entire books, drawings and parts lists (either
separately or combined). These printing options are on the File menu.
In the example, the printing options are available. The options are not available (displayed in
grey font) if you do not have a drawing/list combination displayed, or if you have not yet
selected any parts. The Print Book command is only available if the book’s publisher has
allowed that function.
1. From the File menu, select any of the Print options.
The Print Setup dialog appears.
2. Select the printer settings and click OK to print.
2. Enter the part number or partial part number in the Part Number field.
3. Click Search.
The Matching Part Numbers list will display all the part numbers that contain what you
typed in the Part Number field.
Note: By default, LinkOne ignores dashes (-), spaces, dots (.) and similar ‘noise’ when
comparing part numbers. For example, if you type ‘EB-21’, LinkOne finds numbers
containing ‘EB-21’, ‘EB21’ and ‘EB-2-1’.
The Matching Descriptions list displays all the part descriptions that contain the text
that you typed into the Description text box. The search finds all occurrences of your
text, both uppercase and lowercase.
4. Select a Part Description from the Matching Descriptions list.
The Page list displays the Page Numbers, references and Titles of all pages where that
part description can be found.
5. Select a Page from the Page list.
The Item ID list displays all Items on the selected Page that contain the selected Part
Description.
6. Select an Item from the Items list, then double-click on it (or click on the Go To button).
The dialog closes and the page containing the selected Item is displayed, with that item
highlighted.
Note: By default, LinkOne will not find text in descriptions that is enclosed in parentheses.
Such text is not considered searchable.
Searching in Multiple Books
To search for a part in more than one book, select the Multi Book before clicking Search.
LinkOne will automatically search all of the books that you have that are from the same
publisher as the currently open book.
• Click on the item in the list and click the Select button.
A tick appears in the Selection box when the part has been selected
As you select parts, these parts are added to a selection list with a ‘Quantity Requested’ set to 1.
You can make LinkOne set the ‘Quantity Requested’ to the quantity fitted (as shown in the List)
by holding down the SHIFT key while you select the part.
Note: If the List item you wish to select has a Link icon attached, double clicking will
cause the program to go to the linked page. To select such an item, highlight it and click on
the Select button.
2. To print your Selection List, sort it alphabetically, or delete items on your selection list,
use the buttons on the toolbar.
3. To dock your selection list under the parts list, drag and drop it under the parts list.
Viewing Pictures
To get a closer view of part of a picture you can magnify a picture in either one of two ways:
• Use the Zoom menu
• Click and drag the left mouse button to select an area
Panning Pictures
To pan around a magnified picture, either:
• Use the scroll bars in the picture window, or
• Click and drag the right mouse button
Put the cursor over the separator bar and the cursor will turn into a double-ended arrow . Hold
down the left mouse button and drag the separator bar to a new position. When you release the
mouse button the picture will resize to the width you have specified.