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Displaying and hiding the help content in Talend Studio

About this task

Talend Studio provides you with cheat sheets that you can use as a quick reference that guides you through all common tasks in data profiling.

You can also have access to a help panel that is attached to all wizards used in Talend Studio to create the different types of analyses or to set thresholds on indicators.

Displaying the cheat sheets

When you open Talend Studio for the first time, the Cheat Sheets view opens by default in the Profiling perspective.

If you close the Cheat Sheets view in the Profiling perspective, it will be always closed anytime you switch back to this perspective until you open it manually.

Procedure

  1. Select Window > Show view... from the menu bar.
  2. Expand Help and double-click Cheat sheets.
    Cheat sheets node from the Show view... dialog box.
    The Cheat Sheets view opens.
  3. If no cheat sheets are displayed, click the View Menu button and Launch Other....
    Location of the View menu icon in the Cheat sheets view.
    The Cheat Sheet Selection dialog box opens.
  4. Expand the Talend - Cheat Sheets folder, select the cheat sheet you want to open and click OK .

    The selected cheat sheet opens in the Talend Studio main window. Use the local toolbar icons to manage the display of the cheat sheets.

Hiding the help panel

A help panel is attached to the wizards used in Talend Studio to create and manage profiling items. This help panel opens by default in all wizards.

Example of the Help panel displayed in the New analysis wizard.

Procedure

  1. Select Window > Preferences.
  2. Start typing Web browser and select Web browser under Profiling.
  3. Select the Block browser help check box and click Apply and Close.

Results

All wizards in Talend Studio display without the help panel.

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