Help editing tips

• Navigation
• Content tree
• HTML editing
• Links
• Hotspots

Navigation

Navigation is the movement to other pages.

Click page in content tree

The most direct form of movement is clicking on a page in the content tree.

Follow Hyperlink

Right-click on a hyperlink, clicking 'Follow Hyperlink' will move you to the linked page.

Back and Forward

Navigate visited pages same way as your browser

Content tree

Content tree entries

There are three types of content tree nodes: 1. entries that are initially created by the generation process,  2. entries that have been added (New, Add) by the help author and 3. entries that are derived from control sections. Operations on nodes of the first and second type (1.,2.)  can be done thru rightclick on the node and selecting Delete, Exclude or Rename.

Changing content tree entries that are derived from control sections (rename, remove)

You can rename or remove entries that are derived from control sections by editing their section titles in the HTML page. Directly after moving to another page the comntent tree is updated.

Changing position in content tree

Control + arrows(up/down/left/right)

Moving to help topics and sections

When you click in the content tree on a page that page is automatically loaded (and previous loaded page saved!). For each control under a form there appears in the content tree a section 'subtopic'. Clicking on it automatically moves the HTML page focus to the corresponding section. Use TAB to enter directly in the selected section to start editing.

HTML editing

Entering tabs

When you press TAB while editing this does not insert a TAB in the page. Instead you will move to the next object (picture or table) in the page.

Indentation

To indent do menu: Format > Increase indent

Links

Adding links

Links can be added in several ways to both the HTML page and the content tree:

In the content tree , select a node and:

• New: creates a new HTML page and links it
• Add: selects an existing HTML page and links it

In the HTML page (add hyperlink ), select a text and:

• Click the Hyperlink button on the toolbar - most flexible option
• Click the Insert Hyperlink Relative button on the toolbar - fastest way to link to your own pages.
• Drag & drop a page from the content tree onto your current page.

Change hyperlink URL

• Right-click and select 'Insert hyperlink' - use brows to select another file

Edit Hyperlink text

Position the cursor in it and delete/insert characters.

Fix HTML trouble

Switch on menu to View > HTML

Table formatting

Right-click on the table to change table or cell properties.

Delete a table

Select a table by clicking on it's borders and then press delete. Selecting the table is succesful if you see small squares appear at the corners of the table.

Make headers

Menu: Format > Style > Header ..

Hotspots

To change hotspots positions you need to switch to HTML mode and look for MAP.

Editing Hotspots

For coords the subsequent values mean left-x, top-y, right-x, bottom-y.  

Remove a hotspot

Remove the corresponding 

Add a hotspot

Add the corresponding