Help menu

Choose this menu item to go to the home page for installed documentation for this release of AliasStudio. The preference for the location of this page is available to be set or changed under Preferences > General Preferences

in the System section as Help Location.

AliasStudio documentation can be used either as files installed locally on your hardware, on an intranet, or it can be accessed from:

http://www.autodesk.com/techpubs/AliasStudio/2008.

This version of AliasStudio online documentation requires a recent browser. Version 4 or later of Internet Explorer or version 7 or greater of Netscape or a current version of Mozilla is required.

To install the documentation, use the documentation installer or unzip the files into a location where you want the help system to be accessed.

If the documentation installer is used, AliasStudio should automatically pick up the Help location when AliasStudio is launched.

If the files are manually copied and unzipped, or if, for some reason, AliasStudio does not pick up the Help location automatically, use the pathname (without the terminal slash) to link the documentation to AliasStudio by putting this information in Preferences > General preferences under the System tab.

If installing the Help system locally on the user's file system, the pathname must be prefixed by file:/// for example,

file:///C:/Program Files/Alias/AliasStudio 2008/Help

If installing the Help system on an intranet, the pathname must be prefixed by http:// for example,

http://local.intranet/AliasStudio2008/Help.

If the user will be accessing the Help system from Alias's web, the pathname should be set to

http://www.autodesk.com/techpubs/AliasStudio2008

IE Settings for Windows XP SP2

To run the new Autodesk AliasStudio help system, computers that have been updated with XP Service Pack 2 need to have some settings changed.

Changes to default security settings are made when an upgrade to Windows XP Service Pack 2 is performed. These changes can result in unexpected popup messages requiring you to explicitly allow the help system to be viewed.

To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted 
this file from showing active content that could access your 
computer.

You can then click for the option to Allow Blocked Content. If this is done, you'll receive a Security Warning that says:

Allowing active content such as script and ActiveX controls can be 
useful, but active content might also harm your computer. Are you 
sure you want to let this file run active content?

To allow this content to run without getting blocked, please follow the following steps:

Open Internet Explorer

Go to Tools-->Internet Options-->Advanced Tab

Scroll down to the section labeled Security

Check the box labeled "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer"

Click "OK" and then close the Internet Options window.

See Show the online help

See Use the Contents tab in online help

See Use the Index tab in online help

See Use the Search tab in online help

See Get Help on a particular tool or menu item

See Use breadcrumbs to navigate the Help system

See Display modifier key and mouse button functions

See Show help on a tool or menu item

See Find the location of a tool or menu item in the interface

Help menu

Help > AliasStudio Help

IE Settings for Windows XP SP2