Lab manuals provide instructional content for a lab. You can develop manuals with the Content Engine editor in the VMware Lab Platform administrator user interface, or import manuals from Word or applications such as ScreenSteps. PDF documents can be uploaded and used with the VMware Lab Platform PDF viewer.

You associate lab manuals with the lab's manual project. A lab manual project consists of one or more lab manual instances. If you have multiple language versions of an manual, you can make them all available to lab users by adding them as instances to the same lab manual project.