You can access the OpenEdge Online Help system at any time just by pressing the F1 key in the Procedure Editor. Help is context-sensitive, so it always tries to come up initialized to a section of the help files that seems relevant to what you are doing.

In an OpenEdge editor, if you highlight one or more keywords in a procedure and press F1, you get help for that type of statement.

Try accessing online help:

  1. In your test procedure, highlight the keywords DEFINE VARIABLE, then press F1:

    The online help window appears showing the help keyword index:

  2. Click Display (or double-click on the topic) to see the help text for this entry:
  3. Click the Contents button to access the available help, or click the Search button to specify one or more key words to search for in the help text.