Purpose

The purpose of this guide is to explain how to use Landonline to perform the tasks required to:

• search for information and users
• manage TA e-certification work
• prepare, certify and sign TA e-certification packages; and
• maintain firm details and the details of other users in your firm. (System Managers only).

This User Guide is part of a series of help and support tools that are available for you. The other support tools are:

• Quick Reference Cards,
• Online Help, where you can press F1 while in a Landonline screen to get help for the topic you are working on.

Intended readership

This user guide is intended for Territorial Authorities and their staff who use Landonline to search and to prepare and perform certification on surveys. It is also intended for System Managers to enable them to maintain details of users in their firm.

How to use this guide

User guide structure

This guide is a reference guide. It is structured to enable readers to look up the parts of the text they require to perform specific tasks.

It has six sections:

• This section outlines the purpose of this guide, who it is intended for and how to use it.
• Introduction to Landonline provides a brief description of Landonline and explains how to get started.
• Sections three to five present step by step instructions for managing work, searching for firms and users and preparing and signing TA e-certifications.
• Section six provides instructions for System Managers to manage users within their firm.

Layout

There are several layout conventions used in this guide to present information and aid comprehension.

• Chapter overviews

  Each chapter begins with an overview. The overview introduces the topics in the chapter and presents important concepts and terms.

• Steps and tasks

  Following the overview are steps and tasks. These are displayed at a high level in a boxed paragraph. Where tasks are sequential they are listed as steps. Where tasks are related but not sequential they are listed as bulleted tasks.

  For example, here are the high level steps required to search for TA e-certification work in Landonline.

Steps:
The steps required to search for TA e-certification work in Landonline are: Display the TA Certification screen. Search for the TA e-certification work.

The detail for each high level step or task is further explained in headings following the task list.

• Screen shots

  Where appropriate, screen shots have been incorporated in the guide. The purpose of each screen is explained the first time it is displayed. In addition, portions of screen shots and full screen shots are used to provide the detailed instructions for each step or task.

  For example, this screen shows the steps required to certify a certificate package.

  

  Detailed steps for each task are presented immediately following the screen shot.

• Other Toolkit items

  The Landonline Toolkit provides a set of resources to assist you to use Landonline. Toolkit resources include:

  • User Guides: e-survey User Guide, e-dealing User Guide, e-search User Guide and TA e-certification User Guide.
  • Wizards in Landonline
  • e-dealing Practice Tool
  • Quick Reference Cards
  • Landonline Help.
• References

  The text uses link references to refer to other parts of the guide. For example:

  • See topic References

In some instances other user guides are referenced. For example:

• For more information about searches, refer to the e-search User Guide.

• Bolded and Underlined text

  The following items are bolded in the text:

  • notes and cautions

  The following items are underlined in the text:

  • links to other topics and User Guides
  • links to figures and tables
  • menu selections.
  
  
• Notes and cautions

  Note:
  This format is used to emphasise points, remind readers of something, or to indicate information they need to be aware of.

  Caution:
  This format is used to warn readers about certain actions that can have a serious impact on their work in Landonline.