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October 2009 [Cradle 6.0]

Startup Guide

Cradle-6.0 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:

  • An introduction to Cradle
  • A step-by-step guide to creating a new Cradle project and populating it with data
  • A list of follow-on activities for evaluators and new users that includes links to other Cradle documentation and information resources

On Windows, the Startup Guide can be launched by selecting:

Start → Programs → Cradle → Start Up

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:

In the Start Here section, follow 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 the information in this section, select the now what can I do? link to return to the main page and select I have installed Cradle. What do I do now? 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. There are 8 steps in the evaluation.

After you have worked through the evaluation project, you will have all of the skills needed to create your own Cradle project and load your own data into it. So, if you want to do this, then select the link I have completed the evaluation project. How do I use my own data? in the main page which will direct you to a set 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.