Increasingly often documentation is being delivered digitally, on CD. This makes it imperative that the end user gets a clear insight into the relational structure of the documents on the CD and is able to easily find the information needed. To build a CD navigation from scratch for each machine is time consuming and costly, so a reusable navigational structure is preferable.

The Document Navigator is an application that offers a solution to this issue. The Document Navigator can show the relations within a collection of documents on a CD, without the need for documents to contain hard links to each other. It's possible to combine a partly fixed structure with a dynamic scan of the CD. Thus you can create a navigational structure that doesn't even need to reflect the actual document structure on the CD.

On start up the application scans the documents on the CD and displays them in a predefined relational structure. This means that only those documents are shown that are actually present on the CD.

The Document Navigator compares to the Windows Navigator. However it shows just the tree structure, which contains not only folders but documents as well, in a relational structure predefined by you. The Navigator is situated at the left side of your display and remains visible when you open a document. The apllication associated with the document is placed next to the Navigator (this applies to PDF's, HTML, CHM and Word documents).

The Document Navigator enables you to burn machine related documentation on CD, without having to build a menu from scratch or redefine links in documents.