The RightScale Support site is a flexible and powerful tool for accessing the information that you need. You can either browse for what you are looking for or use our powerful search engine with advanced options to pinpoint your specific content needs. This page contains other basic tips for using the RightScale Support Portal.
All Support pages have a navigation footer. The navigation footer contains hyperlinks to all of the most useful Support Portal and related pages.
Whether you find content on the Support Portal by browsing or using the Support Search function, the breadcrumbs are always displayed so that you can go to the parent directory using one mouse click. Use the breadcrumbs to go up one level or several levels from your search. For example, a search for Create a New SQS Queue would result in the following result:
Check out the Site Map in the bottom navigation. You can find things there by browsing through the page links, clicking on the link for the alphabetic index of the Support Portal, or using your browser search function within the Site Map. By default, hierarchical map is displayed. The Site Map builds an alphabetic index (a-z) for folders/landing pages and individual files.
The Support Search window searches the Support site only. The advanced options are easy to use, yet very powerful.
The Support Search uses the Lucene Search Engine. It is fully documented here. Here are a few basic but practical examples you can submit right from the standard Find:
ssh AND tag:faq - Find all FAQs with "ssh" in them. (Note: AND is case sensitive)
haproxy AND tag:tutorial AND tag:advanced - Find all advanced tutorials with "haproxy" in them
Use the Advanced Search and fill out the forms as needed. Take advantage of the power of the Lucene search engine without having to learn its syntax. For example:
All of these words: Elastic load balancer
The Exact Phrase: Private cloud
Been Tagged With: intermediate
Will find all intermediate tutorials on our Support Site that contain the words "elastic" and "load" and "balancer". If you want to find those three words literally run together, place them in double quotes. That is, change the Search query slightly like this:
All of these words: "Elastic load balancer"
Note that having a pattern surrounded in double quotes can have a subtle effect on the search results. Searching for "create credentials" will produce different results than simply create credentials. Surrounding it in quotes searches on the entire phrase.
We attach metadata to our documents so that your search options are easy to use, yet powerful. Metadata is mostly used behind the scenes so you don't have to be concerned with it. However, it does help us provide categorized output. (For example, our Partner pages are aligned with metadata from the corporate website and the MultiCloud Marketplace. Each document has been tagged with metadata and falls within the following categories:
Although subjective, we have tried to categorize with the following levels:
Each type of document contains a consistent set of elements so that you can quickly and easily view the document and make sense of it. The look and feel of each document is consistent and repeatable, improving your learning experience.
Note: Most, but not all documents have been tagged with this metadata. The effort to categorize appropriate documents is ongoing.
Header
Custom header containing global navigation. No matter what page you are on, you are single click away from the most important landing pages on the entire site. A small triangle (down arrow) for an entry indicates an expandable drop down menu. For example, ServerTemplates and Release Notes.
Footer
Custom footer provides navigation to many helpful Support Portal pages (and related) pages. No matter what page you are on, these helpful links are single click away. (See "Navigation Footer" in the Navigation section above for more information.)
All of our documentation is open and viewable. You do not need to create an account and "login" to view anything on our Support site. However, there is one feature that you can only gain access to if you you have an account and login: Notifications
Many ISV and infrastrucutre partners find this feature beneficial. When you select the Notification icon, you are given the following notification choices:
Notifications are sent to the email address specified when your account was created. As an example use case, you could set a notification for any time a new Release Note is created or modified, partner documentation changes, or FAQs.
Important! This feature is limited to RightScale and some premium partner accounts due to license restrictions. Please contact your account manager if you have need of this feature.
By design, we made this unobtrusive. Most won't need to login at all, so we tucked it away in the top navigation bar at the top of the page. You'll find the links to login or logout at the very top right of any page in our site.
Important! Due to spam account creations, we have disabled the ability to create your own account on the Support Portal. You will have to contact Services to get an account created. The primary benefit of doing this is the ability to get email notifications on pages you want to track changes on. (This feature is restricted however to RightScale and premium partner accounts.)
© 2006-2014 RightScale, Inc. All rights reserved.
RightScale is a registered trademark of RightScale, Inc. All other products and services may be trademarks or servicemarks of their respective owners.