Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Search for | Example | Results |
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A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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Either word in a topic |
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Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- Viewer Overview
- Viewer User Interface
- Configuring Recognition Setting
- Configuring Asset Field Settings
- Loading Data from a Scan File
- Viewing Summary Data
- Viewing Hardware and Configuration Data
- Viewing Directories and Files Data
- Viewing Stored Files Data
- Viewing Software Application Data
- Viewing Software Utilization Data
- Comparing Scans
Viewer User Interface
The Menu Bar
Viewer commands are accessible from the menu bar. Commands are grouped by function (‘File’, ‘Edit’, ‘View’, ‘Window’, ‘Help’). Each function has its own entry (command) in the menus. Menu commands may be activated with the mouse or the keyboard.
- To open a menu, perform one of the following:
- Use the mouse. Click the menu name (for example, File) and then click the command you want (for example, Open Scan File).
- Use the shortcut keys. Shortcut keys are shown to the right of the command in the menus. For example, CTRL+o is a shortcut used to open a scan file.
- Use the access key. Access keys are indicated by an underscore on the active letter. For example, the Open Scan File command in the File menu is accessed by pressing Alt-F and then O.
Note Most menus invoke commands, however, some menu commands display a dialog box. This is indicated by an ellipses (...) after the menu command.
Shortcut Menus
You can access a shortcut menu related to your current activity by positioning the mouse cursor on the appropriate area of the workspace and clicking on the right mouse button.
Toolbars
Toolbars allow you to access various commands without using the menu.
Click the toolbar icon to activate the function associated with it.
Buttons in the toolbar offer the following functionality:
Icon | Name | Function |
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Open Scan File | Loads inventory data from an XSF file. | |
Options | Displays the Viewer Options dialog box. | |
Copy | Copies the information in the currently selected tab to the clipboard. | |
Copy to File | Copies the information in the currently selected tab to a file. | |
Compare | Compares two scans. | |
Find File | Finds a file within a scan. | |
Tile Horizontally | Tiles windows horizontally. | |
Tile Vertically | Tiles windows vertically. | |
Cascade | Cascades windows. | |
Arrange Icons | Aligns all icons of minimized windows. | |
Help | Displays the help text for Viewer. |
Tip When the mouse pointer passes over an icon, a tooltip appears indicating the command corresponding to the icon.
Moving a Toolbar
The toolbar can be dragged and positioned to be aligned to the top of the window, the left of the window or into a floating state.
To move a toolbar:
Click the “move” handle on a docked toolbar (one that is attached to one edge of the program window), and drag it to a new location.
When you drag a toolbar to the edge of a window, the toolbar outline snaps into place along the length of the window edge.
You can dock a floating toolbar by double-clicking on the title bar.
Resizing a Toolbar
To resize a floating toolbar:
Move the pointer over any edge until it changes to a double-headed arrow, and then drag the edge of the toolbar.
Note You cannot resize a docked toolbar.
Tab Pages
Tab pages in Viewer allow you to examine the data from a loaded scan file. You can select the following tab pages:
- Summary
- Hardware and Configuration
- Directories and Files
- Stored Files
- Software Applications (only displayed if Application Recognition was set as an option). See Configuring Recognition Settings for further information.
Status Bar
A status bar at the bottom of the Viewer workspace displays information about the current loaded scan file.
The status bar has three panels:
- The first panel displays the current system date and time.
- The second panel displays the number of scans currently loaded.
- The third panel displays the name of the scan file currently displayed along with a brief description.
Shortcut Keys
You can quickly accomplish tasks you perform frequently by using shortcut keys.
Task | Keyboard Shortcut |
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Open Scan File | CTRL+o |
Close | CTRL+F4 |
Options | CTRL+t |
Exit Viewer | ALT+x |
Copy | CTRL+c |
Compare | CTRL+m |
Find File | CTRL+f |
Show Advanced Hardware View | CTRL+v |
Sorting Lists
Click on a column list header to sort and reverse sort the order of the information, alphabetically or numerically in ascending order (A to Z, a to z or zero to 9) or descending order (Z to A, z to a or 9 to zero).
Double-clicking on the splitter icon between columns will expand the column width to the maximum cell width.
Copying the Contents of a Tab Page
You can save or copy the contents of all tab pages.
To copy the contents of a tab page to the clipboard:
- Select the Copy command from the Edit menu, or click the icon in the Viewer.
- Paste the contents to an editor of your choice.
To save the contents of a tab page to a file:
- Select the Copy to file… command from the Edit menu (text files only), or click the icon in the Viewer.
- Use standard Windows navigation methods to select or enter a file and the location where the file is to be saved.
Searching for Files
You can locate a file from any point within Viewer. This can facilitate the location of files for a machine across multiple drives.
To locate a file from any point:
- Select the Find File command in the Edit menu, or click the icon. The Find File dialog box appears.
- In the Name box, type the name of the file you want to find. You can use DOS wildcard characters, (using * and ?) as well as normal alphanumeric characters.
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Click the Find Now button.
If files matching the file name or mask are located, they are displayed in the Search Results list box.
If the search is lengthy, you can abort the search (with partial results being displayed) by clicking the Stop button.
- Highlight a file entry in the Search Results list.
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Click the Goto button or double-click on a file entry.
The Directories and Files tab of Viewer is displayed in the background showing the located file.
- To clear the entries and carry out a new search, click the New Search button.
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