Finalist Quick Start - Finalist - 10.0

Now that your software is installed, start your work with Finalist as described in these steps.

1. Refer to the Finalist Reference Guide for information on the application program interfaces (APIs) available with the Finalist product.
2. Experiment with the Workbench and the Lookup Tool (not distributed for Unix). This step lets you see how the product's features operate.
3. Design and code your application.
4. Compare the results you achieve with your application to results generated by the tools. For example, if your application cannot postal code an address, use the Lookup Tool to help determine why your application could not code the address.
5. Verify that the pbfn.cfg file contains correct paths to the postal database files city.dir and zip4us.dir.
6. If you are running Finalist under Windows, perform the following steps to become familiar with Finalist features.
   1. Look at the program group created by the Finalist installation procedure.
   2. Click Lookup.
   3. The first time you run the Lookup application, it will bring you to the configuration dialog. In the Files tab, locate the database files available to your PC, in the Product tab, enter the Software key shipped with the product.
   4. Click OK.
   5. You will see four icons in the main window.
   6. Click Postal Code.
   7. Enter your street address, city and state, and click Code.