The Help View provides you assistance inside the workbench. The view consists of several pages. Each page presents help in a different fashion. Hyperlinks at the bottom of the view allow switching among pages. Clicking any topic will display its contents.
The Help View contains the following pages:
The Related Topics Page shows descriptions and help topics related to the currently selected element (editor or view). The About Section shows context help specific to your current context, and the Dynamic Help Section shows some search results that may be related. This page tracks the changes in the workbench and continuously updates displayed information.
The All Topics Page shows the table of contents. It is a hierarchy of all help topics.
The Search Page allows browsing local topics and other documents given a search query. Links to the search results are displayed along with a summary of the topic contents. The search scope controls a subset of documentation being searched.
The Bookmarks Page shows topics marked as personal bookmarks.
The toolbar of the Help View contains the following actions. The available actions depend on the currently displayed page.
Returns to the last page or topic you have viewed.
Once you have pressed the Back button, the Forward button moves you ahead through pages and topics you have already viewed prior to the current display.
Collapses the expanded tree structure of all topics on the page.
When the filtering of workbench elements is enabled, this action enables displaying topics for disabled elements.
Display the currently selected topic in an external window.
Shows the currently displayed topic in the table of contents hierarchy.
Bookmarks the currently displayed document.
Switches between sorting search results by relevance and by logical containers (for example books).
Displays a short description of each search hit, if available.
The menu of the Help View provides menu items that allow you switching Help View pages.
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Book (closed) |
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Book (open) |
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Topic (container) |
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Topic |
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Search of local help |
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Search of remote help |
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Search of web engine |
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Bookmark |