Learning To Use Chief Architect

[Joe_Carrick]

I think that most new users take the time and effort to review the Tutorials and Help Files.  However, there are some who just dive into using it without taking the time to learn the basics.  That IMO is the wrong way and simply results in frustration.

 

In addition, these individuals continually run into issues with almost every new tool/function they need to use and instead of taking a few minutes to look at the help file for that item, they keep "beating their head against the wall" and then post a question here for others to answer.  Often those questions are vague and don't provide enough information for anyone else to give them a good reply.

 

My advice - and I don't think this is new - is first:

 

Check the Help File

Check to see if there are any tutorial videos on that subject.

 

If neither of those solves the problem

 

Post the question along with the Plan and a Pic.

[Kbird1]

For new Users the KnowledgeBase also has MANY Tutorials and is worth a visit 1st it's here

 

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/database.html

 

Also Download the Reference Manual and save it to your Desktop for easy access available here on the "Getting Started Page"

 

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/getting-started/

 

and don't forget all the good free videos at ChiefTutor.com

 

http://www.chieftutor.com/chiefx1.html

[Dennis_Gavin]

NAH, just keep banging your head against the wall.  It feels SO GODD when you stop!  ;o)

[HumbleChief]

NAH, just keep banging your head against the wall.  It feels SO GODD when you stop!  ;o)

Funny Dennis!

[Joe_Carrick]

Just for the record.......

 

I regularly go back to the materials available - Help, Reference Manual, Videos, etc - just to refresh something that I thought I knew how to handle.  Chief is a complex application with a ton of capability but it's really too much to keep all in my human memory bank.  Things that are not used constantly eventually get "disconnected" from my index system.  A review tends to re-index.