The left hand part of the Wysigot display is a folder tree similar to the Windows explorer. The first time you run Wysigot you will see a number of preloaded example sites :
- A "Searches" folder that contains the Google page as an example.
- A "My Sites" folder where you can create your own links to begin with.
- The Wysigot homepage with a few pages from the site.
- The current "First steps" page which you are reading.
This structure is not set in stone, feel free to move, remove or create new links as you wish.

Click on any document in the left tree and the corresponding page will be displayed to the right. The four buttons Html, List, Attached and Information will enable you to choose your preferred display.

Now we are going to choose a page or a whole site to monitor.

Go to File menu and Capture new site. A dialogue box will appear for you to enter the document or page URL. These URLs should begin with http, ftp (file or folder), file (file or folder) for example:
http://www.wysigot.com/fr the french homepage of this site.
ftp://ftp.serveur.com/document.zip or ftp://ftp.serveur.com/folder to monitor all activity in this folder.
file://C:/Mes Documents/wysigot.doc on your PC.
file://MachineName/SharedFolder/wysigot.pdf for a file elsewhere on your network.
file://MachineName/SharedFolder/ to monitor the activity in a whole folder ie the appearance, disappearance or modification of one of it's files.
If you don't give a name for the site Wysigot will create one using elements of the URL or the page title when it becomes available.

The following window enables you to define the frequency with which Wysigot checks for document changes.

Automatic mode leaves the decision of when the next check takes place to Wysigot, based on previous checks and monitored update frequency of document. Periodic mode makes it possible to set the update frequency. In Manual mode Wysigot downloads the document a first time and subsequently only when you choose Refresh from the menu or when you set the date of the next update (this will be explained later in this document).

The next page of the wizard makes it possible, when the original document is a html document, to choose to download pages that are linked to it. This can cover the whole site or defined depth within the site. A level depth of 0 means that Wysigot will not follow any links. A level depth of 1 means that Wysigot will follow all the links in the page and then attribute a level depth value of 0 to the downloaded pages. A level depth of 2 will follow links an extra level, and so on and so forth. Warning! The number of files and thus the volume of downloaded files can grow very rapidly depending on the selected level.
Select Careful if you don't have full confidence in the site. This stops all calls from possibly malicious software (Javascript, ActiveX) and cookies (which make it possible to trace your activity). As a result of this, the display of your page may be incomplete.
Deselect Allow Popups to stop unwanted pop-up windows opening. Now click on Finish. Details also finishes and leads to the Properties editing dialog window which we will see later.

The tree on the left hand side of the screen now displays a little blue icon which symbolises an element. This only represents an address, without an associated file because nothing has been downloaded yet.

It is now necessary to connect Wysigot so that it can begin downloads and page monitoring. If you have an unlimited internet connexion, select Download on opening and Be prepared to download so that Wysigot will be ready and able to monitor and download sites and set off alarms, whether it is being used or reduced as an icon in the taskbar.
Click on Download.
Wysigot generates the list of files to download and begins downloading. This list is accessible from the menu bar View, Downloads. Or more simply by clicking on the Wysigot logo on the top right hand side of the screen. Closing this list only hides it, the downloads continue.

As the documents are downloaded they appear in the tree preceded by the icon that corresponds to their type. If they have not been read they appear in bold type. When you click on them they are displayed in the right hand side of the screen if they are html, image or text files. In the case of other files (zip, mp3, avi etc...) you can double click on the tree entry in order to have them opened by the associated program. You can also save them (file by file) or export them (in the case of a complete site for example).

Once a document has been checked (that is once Wysigot has questioned the server to see whether the document has changed and possibly downloaded it to compare it with the existing file) Wysigot makes an evaluation as to the next check date based on the refresh properties that you have entered. When this date arrives (or when you manually request an update by clicking Refresh) Wysigot checks the document again (if connected) and then calculates the date of the next update, and so on and so forth.

In Wysigot, you can create addresses, folders to archive them in and even agents in the Plus version of the software. It is important to remember that a number of properties are inherited on creation : if an address is created in an element (be it a document or a folder) it will automatically take the applicable parameters. You can subsequently modify the properties of any document. Only those that are created below it in the tree will inherit its parameters.

The properties window is made up of 5 tabs, which list the options that you chose in the wizard in a more detailed manner. Here are the main subtleties:

• Parameters : some sites require an identifier and password which can be entered here. The maximum number of old versions which can be archived is 99. If the number is set at at least 1, and if an older version is available, the page display will underline the new text elements which have not been read. Using the contextual menu (right button) you can also display other versions, or compare any version with any other.

• Refreshment : the Date of next verification area for the next check shows the date which has been calculated using the parameters selected earlier (Automatic, Periodic or Manual). But you can always modify this by hand. For example you can choose an Automatic update and select As soon as possible so that it is checked immediately. It will then be checked automatically.

• Alarms : (in the Plus version only.) If you want to monitor a page, for example an eBay page that has "0 items found" and you want to know when at least one item has been found, enter "0 items found" in the Expressions that must miss field. You must enter the expression on one line and without inverted commas because you want the expression in its entirety as three contiguous words. At each modification of the page, Wysigot will search for that expression and will set off an alarm if it is not present.

• Aspiration : on top of downloading the document the URL of which is present in the parameters tab you can also ask Wysigot to download the files which are linked from the page. At each modification of the page the links are analysed and all the new files are downloaded as long as they correspond to the criteria (the ones which no longer correspond to the criteria are not erased as are not erased the linked files that have been created by a click on a link within a page). Be careful with depth level. If you have set it above 1, it is advisable to select Stay on the site as well. Automatic complete site downloads have their problems: dynamic links such as scoll down menus are not followed. When you erase undesirable files following a download, their addresses are excluded from the mother page which refers to them. But another page may lead to the same file and cause it to be downloaded. It is therefore wiser to start with one page and on reading through it clicking on the links which you care to follow. Or another solution is to set the grouped properties of a site to a depth level of 1 following a compete site download. This solution will not erase any files which are already present.

• Notes : you can associate a note of unlimited length to every file. Following this all annotated files are highlighted by a little red icon and the note appears when the mouse hovers above the file. Advanced search can also be carried out on the notes.

In order to go further in you discovery of Wysigot you can use the F1 key to access the integrated documentation.