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<h1>Help view</h1>
<p>The Help view provides user assistance inside the workbench.
The view consists of several pages. Each page presents help in a
different fashion. Hyper links at the bottom of the help view
allow switching among pages, and clicking any topic will display
its contents.</p>
<h2>Related Topics</h2>
<p>The <strong>Related Topics</strong> page shows description and
help topics related to the current workbench context. The
<b>About</b> section shows context help specific to your current
context, and the <b>Search</b> link allows you to search for more
results based on the name of the view or dialog that has focus.
The Related Topics page tracks changes in the workbench and
continuously updates displayed information.</p>
<h2>Contents</h2>
<p>The <strong>Contents</strong> page shows the table of
contents. It is a hierarchy of all help topics arranged in a
tree. The tree branches can be expanded to browse topics that can
be displayed using a single mouse click.</p>
<h2>Search</h2>
<p>The <strong>Search</strong> page allows locating local topics,
cheat sheets, welcome content, remote documents, and other
documents given a search query. Links to search hits are
displayed along with a summary of topic contents. Search scope
controls a subset of documentation being searched. Multiple
search scopes can be configured, each defining a custom set of
resources from among local documentation, additional local search
engines or remote engines on the web.</p>
<h2>Index</h2>
<p>The <strong>Index</strong> page provides an index of keywords
that direct the user to specific help topics, similar to indexes
found at the back of a book. As you type in the text field, the
best match will automatically be highlighted in the list of
keywords. Pressing enter or clicking on a keyword will display
the given topic.</p>
<p><i>Note: The index page will only appear when index content is
available in the workbench.</i></p>
<h2>Bookmarks</h2>
<p>The <strong>Bookmarks</strong> shows topics marked as personal
bookmarks.</p>
<h2>Toolbar</h2>
<p>The toolbar of the Help view contains the following buttons.
The available buttons depends on the currently displayed
page.</p>
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<dt>Back</dt>
<dd>Displays the page or the topic that was displayed
immediately prior to the current display.</dd>
<dt>Forward</dt>
<dd>Displays the page or the topic was displayed immediately
after the current display.</dd>
<dt>Collapse All</dt>
<dd>Collapses the tree expansion state of all topics on the
page.</dd>
<dt>Show All Topics</dt>
<dd>When filtering of workbench elements is enabled, the
buttons enables displaying topics for disabled elements.</dd>
<dt>Show Result Categories</dt>
<dd>Switches between sorting search results by relevance and by
logical containers for example books.</dd>
<dt>Show Result Descriptions</dt>
<dd>Displays short description of each search hit, when
available.</dd>
<dt>Menu</dt>
<dd>Provides menu items that allow you switching help view
pages.</dd>
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<h2>Icons</h2>
<p>The following icons can appear in the various pages of the
Help view.</p>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Book
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<td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Search of local
help</td>
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<td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Search of remote
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<td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src=
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<td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Search of web
engine</td>
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<td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Highlight search
terms</td>
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help window</td>
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<td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Bookmark
document</td>
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<h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href=
"help.htm">Help</a>
<h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href=
"../tasks/help.xhtml">Accessing help</a><br>
<a href="../tasks/help_navigate.htm">Navigating help topics</a>
<h3 class="related">Related reference</h3><a href=
"../reference/help_preferences.htm">Help preferences</a>
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