About Help Topics

Any help system consists of separate topics with text. Help Development Studio fully provides you with the possibility to create topics for your help project, write and edit the text they contain and set their properties. Help Development Studio lists topics of your help project and lets you easily navigate on them, and select them for editing. If you do not see the topic list on the screen, use commands of the View|Browser Panels menu or press F11 to show it.

Below are main actions for working with help topics. Most of them can be performed only in the Topics editing mode. To go to this mode, choose the Topics command from the Tools menu or click the appropriate button on the Tools toolbar.

Adding a Topic
Choose the Add command from the Topics menu, set topic properties at the dialog box and click OK.

Removing a Topic
Select the necessary topic in the list and choose the Remove command from the Topics menu.

Editing Topic Properties
Select the topic whose properties you want to edit, and choose the Properties command from the Topics menu.

Quck Change of Status
For quick changing the status of a help topic, click its icon in the list until the necessary status is set.