Product Documentation

Doc Assistant User Guide
Product Version 2.02 May 2023


Contents

1

Introduction

Doc Assistant Features

2

Introduction to Doc Assistant

Launching Doc Assistant

Signing In To Doc Assistant

3

Doc Assistant User Interface

Search Bar

My Products List

Home 

My Dashboard

Hamburger Menu 

Help 

Notifications 

Document Categories

4

Doc Assistant Network Modes

Doc Assistant - Online Mode

Doc Assistant - Offline Mode

5

Searching Through Content

Search Results

Topic Viewer

Indexing

6

Filtering Search Results

Content Type

Examples and Code

Product

Product Feature

Document Types

Category

7

Finding Content within a Page

8

Sending Feedback

9

Troubleshooting Doc Assistant

Debugging Doc Assistant

Accessing Doc Assistant

Viewing Updated Content in Doc Assistant

Disable high-dpi for higher resolution devices

10

My Dashboard

History

Adding Bookmarks

Managing Bookmarks

Deleting Bookmarks

Editing Bookmarks

Moving Bookmarks into a Folder

Importing Cadence Help History and Bookmarks

Focus Area

Content Type

Document Libraries

Adding Document Libraries
Loading Document Libraries
Pre-Defined Document Libraries
Document libraries in environment variables

My Products

Doc Assistant Settings

Content Display Settings
Shutdown/Startup Behavior 
Weblinks
Proxy Server

My Downloads

11

Doc Assistant Known Problems and Solutions

CCR 2629988: Doc Assistant cannot connect to the online server

CCR 2642435: Downloading and installing updates for a single product not working

CCR 2642427: Download status is not updated even after the download is complete

CCR 2549352: Low space in the home directory results in multiple issues with Doc Assistant 

CCR 2549356: Dashboard takes time to load on RHEL7.7 on the first launch.

CCR 2562202: Doc Assistant launches in Offline mode

CCR 2757746: On switching from TA to Doc Assistant, Doc Assistant goes offline

CCR 2759092: Help button does not work when it is called from libManager application without a Virtuoso session

CCR 2756750: Online mode not available in the Doc Assistant standalone launch

CCR 2780674: Opening Task Assistant makes the Doc Assistant go Offline

FUSION-1818: An ambiguous warning flags in the CIW on opening a help form.

FUSION-1892: The | (pipe) special character is not working in search in Offline documentation mode

FUSION-1911: The Hamburger menu is hidden when Doc Assistant is zoomed in while the topic viewer is opened

CCR 2791272: * with less than 3 characters is not giving proper results

CCR 2791282: Windows Scaling issue in Doc Assistant

CCR 2629988: Manually configuring the proxy server for Doc Assistant not working

CCR 2642427: Download status is not updated even after download is complete

CCR 2642435: Downloading and installing updates for a single product not working

CCR 2784079: Doc Assistant popups "Render process exited with code 133" message and generate the core file in DPC

CCR 2779651: Doc Assistant in offline mode gives rendering error with exit code:5

CCR 2779661: Doc Assistant : render process crashed when opening cda with product help button

CCR 2781876: Cadence doc assistant; Render process crash 'Render process exited with code; 5 Do you want to reload the page?'

CCR 2805697: Open Weblinks in Browsers setting cannot be updated in Offline mode

CCR 2815598: Websocket (505) error continues to come up (on certain machines) even after cleaning up cache

12

Launching Doc Assistant from Command Line

search

tool

openpage

hierarchy

13

Doc Assistant Environment Variables

14

Task Assistant Interface in Doc Assistant

15

Opening Custom Help Forms in Doc Assistant

Related Topics

Working with a Tag File

Documentation Lookup Order

Doc Assistant lookup order for Cadence help forms

Doc Assistant lookup order for custom/user-created help forms

How to use CSF search mechanism



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