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Cradle-5.5.1 provides a web-based resource to assist new users and evaluators to explore Cradle and learn about its capabilities.
This resource is a set of web pages that are installed with every Cradle client installation and which contains:
On Windows, the Startup Guide can be launched by selecting:
Start → Programs → Cradle → Startup Guide
and on UNIX it can be started by opening your web browser on its initial page:
$CRADLEHOME/doc/index.htm
When opened, the Startup Guide provides an introductory page and top-level menu:
Following the Your Introduction to Cradle link provides the introduction page from where you can access descriptions of the main parts of Cradle:
After you have explored this section you can either follow direct links to the evaluation section or you can select the I have installed Cradle. What do I do now? link in the main page to reach the evaluation part of the Startup Guide. This is a collection of step-by-step instructions to create a new Cradle project and populate it with representative data, in this case for a car park:
We encourage all evaluators of Cradle to follow these step-by-step instructions as the first part of their Cradle evaluation.
Finally, either direct links or the I have completed the evaluation project. How do I use my own data? link in the main page will direct you to a set of links to further information and Cradle documents that you can use to plan how to apply Cradle to your own projects:
We will be pleased to help you at any stage in the evaluation process, either to answer questions or to provide guidance to explain how Cradle could be applied to your projects in your organisation.
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