# Navigating in the Information Manager

In addition to using the traditional book structure, there are other ways in which you can navigate in an information library. For example, you can read books in a library by following links to related information. Or, you can use history and map features to find information.

This chapter provides information on:

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You can also search directly for information on a particular item. See INFOUG.Search.mkr.1 for more information on initiating a search, formulating a search query, and restricting the scope of your search.

## Identifying Your Current Location

With hypertext links, you can quickly and easily move from one section, or even from one book, to another. As you move around within a book or an entire library, your current location may not always be obvious to you. You can easily identify your current location by using:

- Locators. See INFOUG.Navigate.mkr.3.

- Automatic tracking (the Book List). See INFOUG.Rdbooks.div.3.

- Preceding section display (the History List). See INFOUG.Navigate.mkr.11.

- The graphical map. See INFOUG.Navigate.mkr.12.

## Using Locators

Each book and each section within a book has a unique identifier known as a locator. The Information Manager allows you to display locators and then use them to access the sections they identify.

### Showing Locators

To display the locator for the book and section you are currently viewing, choose Show Locator from the Browser menu. The Information Manager displays the locator in the message area at the bottom of the window.

To return to a section at later point, you can record its locator and then specify it with Open Locator.

### Going to Locators

To return to a section whose locator you previously identified with Show Locator, choose Open Locator from the Go menu. The Information Manager displays the following dialog so you can specify the section's locator.

#### Open Locator Dialog

Specify the locator of the section you want to go to.

Click Apply to go that section and keep the dialog open; click OK to go to the section and close the dialog.

## Following Links

In the Information Manager, hypertext links appear as bold, underlined, and colored text. Links provide a quick way to “jump” to

- Other parts of the current section

- Other sections in the same book

- Other books in the information library

To follow a link in the Reading window, position the pointer on the link text and click. To follow a link in a list window (such as the Section History List), position the pointer on the link and double-click.

When you follow a link from an unpinned Reading window, the Information Manager replaces the current section with the new one. If the Reading window is pinned, the Information Manager opens a new Reading window to display the new section.

### Previewing Link Destinations

From the Reading window, you can preview a link's destination before deciding whether to follow it. To see the title of the destination section:

1. Position the pointer on the link.

2. Press and hold down the left mouse button. The Information Manager displays the link’s destination in the message area at the bootom of the window.

3. To follow the link, release the mouse button. If you decide not to follow the link, move the pointer off the link before releasing the mouse button.

## Retracing Your Steps

You may want to return to a section that you viewed earlier in your browser session. You can revisit sections by using either:

- The Section History list. See INFOUG.Navigate.div.9.

- History Arrows. See INFOUG.Navigate.div.10.

### Using the Section History List

The Information Manager displays a record of the sections you have visited during the current browser session. You can quickly check the sections you have read by opening the Section History list, shown in the following figure.

#### Section History List

The Section History list includes each section visited from the most recent to the least recent. Although you may have visited a section more than once in a session, the Information Manager lists it only once.

To use the Section History list:

1. Choose History from the Go menu of the Reading window. The Information Manager displays the Section History list.

2. To move to a section in the list, double-click on the section title or highlight the section title and click Display. If the Reading window is unpinned, the Information Manager replaces the current section with the new one. If the Reading window is pinned, the Information Manager opens another Reading window to display the new section.

To close the Section History list without going to a previousy viewed section, click Close.

### Using History Arrows

You may want to move either backward or forward through the series of previously viewed sections. You can use the Reading window’s history arrows to move through the sections you have read, in the order in which you read them. The history arrows appear at the beginning of the Reading window toolbar, to the left of the browse arrows.

You can perform the same functions by choosing Back and Forward from the Go menu.

If you visited the same section more than once in your browser session, the history arrows will do the same.

The left history arrow takes you back through the section list; the right history arrow takes you forward.

If you are positioned at the beginning or end of the section list, the left or right history arrow becomes unselectable, indicating that you cannot go any farther in that direction.

## Viewing Preceding Sections

You may want more general information than is presented in the current section, or you may want a better perspective on what level of information you are reading. In other words, you want to view a list of the sections that precede the current section in the book’s structure.

To view a list of the preceding sections, click on the section title button, immediately above the viewing area.

The Information Manager displays the list of section titles.

You can scroll the list as far back as the name of the library that contains the section's book.

The top two items in the list represent the bookcase and the information library. They cannot be selected because they do not identify a specific section.

To go to any section in the list, click on its title. If the Reading window is unpinned, the Information Manager replaces the current section with the new one. If the Reading window is pinned, the Information Manager opens another Reading window to display the new section.

To close the section list without moving to another section, click the section title button again.

## Navigating with the Graphical Map

To orient yourself to a book’s organization, you can display a graphical map of its sections. The map is a graphical “tree” that displays the titles of the book’s sections. The map makes it easier to see the overall organization of the book.

### Graphical Map

### Opening the Map

To display the map, click the Graphical Map button on the Reading window's tool bar or choose Graphical Map from the Windows menu.

The Information Manager opens the graphical map, showing the title of the current section and the titles of the other sections in the book.

### Panning across the Map

To see section titles that are not currently visible, you can pan across the map. This ability is useful because maps are usually too large to be displayed in their entirety.

The graphical map contains a panner box in the upper left corner that you can use to select which part of the map to display.

To pan across a map:

1. Position the pointer on the panner box in the local section map.

2. Press and hold the left mouse button.

3. Drag the mouse to display the part of the map you want to see. For example, move the panner box to the right to view titles that are hidden by the map’ s right boundary.

If you prefer, you can adjust the size of the entire graphical map by resizing the window.

### Going to a Section from the Map

To view a section shown on the graphical map, click the section's title. If the Reading window is unpinned, the Information Manager replaces the current section with the new one. If the Reading window is pinned, the Information Manager opens another Reading window to display the new section.

### Updating the Graphical Map

If you want to update the graphical map to show your current location in a book, click the Auto Update button at the upper right of the Graphical Map window. If you want the graphical map to automatically reflect your location each time you move through a book, choose Preferences for Map from the Options menu and set Auto Update to on.