Tips for Navigating in ProDemand
The purpose of this post is to provide some helpful reminders and tips about basic navigation of the ProDemand product. The information below covers the questions that our technical support team gets asked most frequently.
One of the very basic things to know about navigating in ProDemand is that the browser “Back,” “Forward” and “Refresh” buttons do not work as they do when you are surfng the Internet and should not be used when in ProDemand. Instead, the three ways that you will navigate in ProDemand are described below.
1. Menu Bar
From the home page, click on any module in the menu bar to access specific information. If you are inside a module already, just click on the blue box in the upper left side that displays the module you are in. A drop-down will display giving you all the options below.
The ProDemand Menu Bar
2. The “Drawer”
In the Codes, Components, and Service Manual Modules, you will notice a long vertical bar on the left side of the screen (see below). Clicking the arrow on the vertical bar will open and close the “drawer” which gives you access to searching within each module.
The “Drawer” – closed and open views
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3. Bread Crumb Trail
When you click on a link in ProDemand you may be presented with a popup window. Additional links in this window will open content in the same window. As you dig deeper into the product, you will notice a “bread crumb trail” forming at the top of the page (see below). Use this bread crumb to navigate inside this window — simply click any of the links in the bread crumb to go to that page. This makes it easy to go back to any of the other pages you were previously on; just click the desired page link at the top of the window.
ProDemand Bread Crumb Trail
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We invite anyone who wants to learn more to join us for our daily (Monday–Friday) free online training sessions: http://www.mitchell1.com/training/prodemand/ We cover all ProDemand features and include real-world example lookups as well as a Q & A period.