Running the Program

The Openlaw Icon

To run the Openlaw Demo or your Case, locate the sub-directory in which it is located and click on the executable file with the same name as the Case. You could create a short-cut from your Windows desktop. The icon will look like this.

You should read the sections linked from the bottom of this page before proceeding further. They relate to checks for version compatibility (which must be done) and to various options and switches which it is helpful to understand before you begin.

User Name

You may be asked to accept or change a user name – this is not a password, merely a means of identifying your last selection of Items and other things peculiar to you as a user, such as the ownership of newly-saved Bundles, Query preferences etc. Note that your ability to change this name may have been removed as part of the User restrictions described on the section called Setup Users.

The Login screen reminds you that you can press F1 from anywhere in Openlaw to go to a Help page relevant to what you are doing. Pressing F1 at this point, for example, takes you to this page about Getting Started.

The Current Selection

Users work on sorted selections of Items in Openlaw, so that they can view, edit, save, print them etc. When you first start, you are given a zero Selection - no records - so you will begin by making a search for a Selection. Thereafter, each user is given the selection with which he or she was last working. The User Name dictates which selection you get.