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Help System: Main Window

The main ISS Help System window.

Principal end-user features:

  • Selecting a topic would display information about that topic.
  • Selecting an arrow would expand the topic, making its subtopics visible.

Supervisor features: if the user were logged in as a supervisor, then:

  • Selecting the pencil would put the system into Edit Mode.
  • Selecting the Users icon would allow the supervisor to see the system as clerks (non-supervisors) saw it.

Architecture:

  • The content was drawn in real time from a relational database. Supervisors could edit the data, and other users could see the changes immediately.
  • The hierarchical display, on the left, was composed of three primary components and a number of secondary components, all of which were independently reusable, programmable, and data-driven.