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web site, you are redirected to the logon page. After logging on, the page is displayed.

•

Knowledge Base

—Opens the Knowledge Base page on the Schrödinger web site in your

browser.

•

Diagnostics

—Opens the 

Diagnostics

 panel, in which you can run licensing and installa-

tion diagnostic tests, and generate reports to send to technical support. See 

Section 6.8

and 

Section 7.10.1

 of the Installation Guide for more information. 

•

About Maestro

—Opens a window that gives information about Maestro versions and

copyright and licensing notices.

•

About Applications

—Opens a help topic that gives a brief description of Schrödinger

products.

•

About Utilities

—Opens your PDF viewer with the quick reference sheet that describes the

utilities in $SCHRODINGER/utilities.

•

Contact Technical Support

—Displays a form on the Schrödinger web site that you can fill

in to create a technical support ticket.

18.2 Maestro Help

For information on performing a particular operation in Maestro, look for answers first in the

help. The help system includes descriptions of all the Maestro panels and how to use them, and

other information on performing various tasks. In addition, it has active links to other sources

of information, such as the PDF manuals and the Schrödinger web site.

The Maestro help is presented in the 

Help

 panel. You can open the help panel in the following

ways:

• Click the 

Help

 button in the lower right corner of a panel or dialog box, or press 

F1

. The

button may have text or an icon.

A topic is displayed that gives information about the panel, dialog box, or current tab in

the panel. 

• Choose 

Help

 from the 

Help

 menu, or press 

CTRL+H (H)

 in the Workspace. A topic is

displayed that gives information about getting help.

• Choose 

Help

 from a shortcut menu in the Workspace, to open a relevant help topic. 

Most topics contains a list of contents at the top that you can click to go to the relevant section,

and a list of related topics at the end that you can click to select a new topic. 

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Figure 18.1. The Help panel.

The 

Help

 panel has a toolbar at the top, with navigation and search tools. The 

Previous

 and

Next

 buttons take you to the previous and the next topic or set of search results. 

The 

Home

 button displays a list of all help topics with links, in alphabetical order. 

To search for text across all topics, enter the words in the search text box, and press 

ENTER

 or

click the 

Search

 button. 

The results are displayed in the display area, and you can click the links to display the topic

that contains the words. 

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By default, the search looks for all the words you enter (implicitly inserting “and” between the

words). The search allows you to construct complex search expressions:

• Use ‘and’, ‘or’, and ‘not’ to construct conditional expressions. For example, ‘ligand prep-

aration not protein’ finds topics that contain ‘ligand’ and ‘preparation’ but not ‘protein’. 

• Use parentheses to group expressions, e.g. ‘(ligand not protein) preparation’ first looks

for topics that contain ‘ligand’ but not ‘protein’, and then looks in the results of that

search for topics that contain ‘preparation’. 

• Use double quotes to search for an exact phrase, e.g. “protein preparation”. 

To find words in a single topic, click the 

Find on page

 button. 

You can then enter the words in the search text box and press 

ENTER

 or click the 

Search

button. Click the arrow buttons to go to the next or the previous hit in the page. 

18.3 Context-Sensitive Help

Maestro has two other help features, which are described below.

Auto-Help

The Auto-Help text area is located at the foot of the main window. The Auto-Help facility

provides automatic context-sensitive help, usually providing information about the task to be

completed. For example, when you open the 

Atom Labels

 panel, Auto-Help prompts you to

pick an atom to label. Auto-Help is not available for all operations.

Tooltips

Tool tips (Balloon Help) consist of a floating text box containing context-sensitive help that

appears when the pointer rests on an object. The box disappears when you move the pointer.

You can temporarily disable tool tips by deselecting 

Show tooltips 

in the 

Appearance

 tab of the

Preferences

 panel. Tool tips are available for many but not all interface components.

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18.4 Manuals

Manuals are available in PDF format on the program DVD or the download, and are installed

into the docs folder (directory) of your software installation. Manuals can be opened via the

HTML documentation index Documentation_Index.html (

Help

 

→ 

Documentation Index

),

or via a PDF index, Manuals_Index.pdf, which you can open in your PDF viewer. On

Windows you can open the documentation index from the 

Start

 menu. 

Manuals (and the PDF index) contain links to other manuals. As not all PDF viewers treat

cross-document links correctly, we recommend the following viewers:

• Linux: okular or evince 

• Mac: Adobe Reader

• Windows: Adobe Reader.

If you have Adobe Reader installed, in a version no earlier than 6.0, you can use the search

index provided with the documentation to search the entire manual set. You do not need to load

this index to search the documentation with Adobe Reader, but it makes the search much

quicker. Choose 

Help 

→

 Search Manuals

 or open Manuals_Search.pdx in Adobe Reader,

and then do the search. This file is stored in the docs folder. The problems with Adobe Reader

on Linux not following links does not affect the links to documents in the search results. 

If you use more than one search index in Adobe Reader, you can select the Schrödinger index

by following the instructions below.

1. Click 

Search

.

2. Click 

Advanced Search Options

 at the bottom of the panel.

3. Under 

Look In

, choose 

Select Index

. 

4. Navigate to and select the file schrodinger.pdx, which is in $SCHRODINGER/docs.

5. Ensure that this is the only index selected for searching.

If a document does not open when you click the link to it, the problem could be one of those

listed below.

1. The document is not installed. 

The installed documents are located in $SCHRODINGER/docs/product, where product is

maestro

, for example. By default, all the documentation is installed. See the 

Installation

Guide

 for installation information. 

2. The document was copied by the application and the relative links between PDF files are

not preserved. 

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