About this user guide

This user guide relates to the RDA. For more information about the project, see the background pages on the Getting started page.

Page navigation

In addition to the main navigation menu at the top of the screen, a context-sensitive navigation menu appears to the right-hand side of each page. An example of this navigation menu is shown below:

On small screens, this navigation menu is hidden to save space.

Definitions

The RDA user interface contains a number of elements that are used to display, add, and manipulate data. Definitions of these elements look like the examples shown below:

Button

This is an example definition for a button

Checkbox

This is an example definition for a checkbox

Dropdown

This is an example definition for a dropdown menu

Field

This is an example definition for a field

Radio

This is an example definition for a radio button

Link

This is an example definition for a link

Dropdown content

To save space in the user guide, some content, including the above definition lists, is placed into dropdown links. The link below is an example of a dropdown:

Print and expand content

In the top-right corner are buttons to print the content and to expand all dropdowns (see Dropdown content above).

Print and expand buttons

Notes

Important points of interest are shown in notes. An example note is shown below:

This is an example note.