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<title>Download Manager Options | [Tab] Mail Setup</title>
That kind of title gives some good info. You're in Download Manager Options, and you're viewing the help for the Mail Setup tab.
However, I've worked out the following use of menucascade:
<menucascade>
<uicontrol>Tools</uicontrol>
<uicontrol>Options...</uicontrol>
<uicontrol>[Tab] Security</uicontrol>
</menucascade>
...and BTW, we'll eventually be pulling the "where is it?" question entirely from the application itself (and inserting into menucascade), so I'm feeling pretty geeky-ego-coolified about that!
Now, my questions are:
How descriptive should the title be?
Here are some options:
1. Mail Setup (all the rest of the info is explained in the topic)
2. Mail Setup Tab (tells more about what it is, but breaks my "QuickProcedure" methodology, which for example works like this:
Menu MarketData | [select] Market Data Type | [screen] Search for and find the data item you wish to edit | [action] Overwrite the data item | [action] Complete the task by pressing Tab, Enter, or by continued use of TBD.
and
QuickProcedure
[Windows Taskbar] Click Start | All Programs | [menu] Bulldog Download Manager | [submenu] select Bulldog Download Manager | [screen] click OK.
...and even though I'm still working on the details of the QuickProcedure, I feel like it will be very helpful once I've worked out the kinks. One of the kinks is: do I bracket things like [select]..., or [action] select XYZ, or do I just point out [menu] [submenu] [screen] [tab], etc.?If I use the methodology [tab] Tabname select the XYZ checkbox, then I'd likely want to do something like
3. [Tab] Mail Setupfor my reference topic titles
or even, what I've come to for now:
4. Download Manager Options | [Tab] Mail Setup
The more I think of it, the more I'm leaning towards naming the reference topic as specifically as possible, which would be Mail Setup, and that's it. Maybe Mail Setup Tab.
Your thoughts and suggestions are most welcome...and hey...wanna help me with my QuickProcedure methodology?
Cheers!
Dainis
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