Determining the Help Access Points

June 19th, 2006 by Posted in Macromedia Products, Macromedia RoboHelp Office

Determining the Help Access Points

As you can see in the Builder Data Bank scenario (see Figure 1), an author and developer agree to provide three access points to help:

• Help link at the top of the main menu on each screen to show window-level help topics
• Tip link to field level context-sensitive topics
• Show Me link to Captivate demos

Figure 1. The Help access design, showing three links to context-sensitive help topics

Use the following steps to bring the design in Figure 1 to life:

Play the demo: Accessing Help in a Web Application

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