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The five ways to find something here: the table of contents, its filter, the headings of the page you are on, the search box, and the Ask the docs assistant.

This site carries the PULSE product documentation, the Macola® guides written from our white papers, the release notes, and the archive of the 106 source documents everything was built from. The front page, Products & documentation, lists all of it in four bands.

Finding something in it takes one of five routes. This page is a short tour of each, and of the one search behavior that surprises people.

Leahy Consulting Documentation Search 4 Filter the contents 2 PULSE SOFTWARE FAMILY Pulse Dashboard Pulse eCommerce Pulse Lockbox MACOLA® ERP Macola® guides THIS SITE & CLAUDE CODE Where to start 1 The table of contents, grouped by what each entry is The page you are reading TABLE OF CONTENTS The table of contents Filtering the contents The headings of the page The search box Ask the docs 3 The headings of this page, following you as you scroll Ask the docs 5
The five controls and where they sit: the table of contents and its filter on the left, the search box in the header, the headings of the current page on the right, and the Ask the docs button in the corner.

The table of contents

The left sidebar is the whole site in one list. It is grouped by what each entry is, with a small heading above each group: the PULSE software family, the Macola® ERP guides, Leahy Consulting support and services, and This site & Claude Code, which holds these pages and the source document library. Those labels match the bands on the front page, so both describe the site the same way.

Sections start closed. Click a product or a section to open it, and click again to close it. The section you are inside stays open as you read, so you can always see where the current page sits.

Filtering the table of contents

The box above the sidebar narrows the list as you type. It keeps the entries whose own label contains every word you typed, highlights the part that matched, and keeps the parent entries above each match on screen so you can see where the result sits. Those parents are shown in lighter type, because they are there for context rather than because they matched.

The filter looks at the labels in the table of contents and nothing else. It will not find a page whose title does not contain your word, even when the page is full of it. That is what the search box is for.

The headings of the page you are on

On a wide screen, the right-hand column lists the headings of the page you are currently reading, and the current section is marked as you scroll. It is a good way to judge the length and shape of a long reference page before committing to it, and to jump to the one section you came for. On a narrow window there is not room for it, so it collapses into a control at the top of the page instead. A few pages, including the front page, have no headings list at all.

Both columns are labeled Table of contents, which catches people out. The left one is the whole site and stays the same wherever you are. The right one is just the page in front of you and changes with every page you open.

The search box in the header looks inside the text of every page, not just the titles. Type two or three words and results appear as you type.

Results are grouped by page, with the matching sections listed underneath, so a long guide shows you the specific heading that answers your question rather than just the page. The count above the list tells you how many matches there are altogether. Click one and the site takes you to that heading with your words highlighted on the page.

Two habits make it much more accurate.

Quote the words that must all appear. Without quotes, the search returns any page containing any of your words and ranks the best matches first, which is forgiving but noisy. With quotes it returns only the pages that contain all of them. On this site today, purchase orders returns 90 results because it includes every page mentioning orders alone, while "purchase orders" returns 39, all of which mention both words.

purchase orders 90 results any page with either word, best matches first "purchase orders" 39 results only the pages carrying both words Quotation marks require every word, but they ignore the order you wrote them in. "orders purchase" returns the same 39 results, so this is not a search for an exact phrase.
Quoting narrows the list to pages carrying every word.

Quotation marks are not a phrase search

Quoting requires every word, but it does not require them to sit next to each other or in the order you typed. "orders purchase" returns the same 39 results as "purchase orders". If you need a genuine phrase, quote it to narrow the field and then read the highlighted results.

Type part of a word when you are unsure of the ending. Searching for shortag finds shortage, shortages, and Shortage_### together, because the last word you type is matched from its beginning. That also means a misspelling in the middle of a word finds nothing, so when a search comes back empty, shorten the word rather than rephrasing the question.

Page titles count for far more than body text in the ranking, so a page named after your search almost always comes first. Capital letters are ignored, so Macola and macola find the same pages.

Ask the docs

The Ask the docs button in the bottom-right corner of every page opens an assistant that answers questions in plain English. It searches this site, answers from what it finds, and links the pages it drew from so you can check the source and read further.

It suits a different kind of question than the search box. Search is the right tool when you know roughly what the thing is called and want to get to the page. Ask the docs is the right tool when you would struggle to name it: "why is my on-order quantity wrong after a partial receipt", or "which report shows items about to go short". It also handles a follow-up question in the context of what you just asked.

Drag the panel's edge to resize it, maximize it to fill the window, or pop it out into a window of its own so it sits beside the page you are reading. Your conversation stays put while you move around the site.

It answers only from what this site says, so if a page is out of date the answer will be too, and if something was never documented it will not know. Check the links it gives you when the answer matters, and if the site turns out to be wrong or silent on the subject, tell us on one of the numbers at the foot of this page and the page gets fixed.

Everything the assistant can reach today is public, because every page on this site is. Leahy's own internal material will sit behind a login when that is built, and the assistant will draw on it only for an employee who has signed in. Until then, nothing internal goes on the site at all. Current value and roadmap explains why in full.

If it turns out you will be writing pages here rather than only reading them, Where to start is the page for that: which of the setup pages you need, and how long each takes.

Support & contact

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