Assign HTML Help as a Resource

You can assign HTML Help (or .CHM file) as a resource for a variable or dialog. The resource can appear either in a help viewer or as pop-up text. You may need to review your HTML Help program's documentation for additional information on concepts and terms described below.

To assign HTML Help as a resource

  1. Open the variable or dialog to which you want to assign resources. (See Edit a Variable or Edit a Custom Dialog.)
  2. Click the Resource tab.
  3. Click the Resource type drop-down button and select HTML Help from the Resource type drop-down list.
  4. Click the Open button next to the HTML Help file field to locate the file.
  5. In the Topic field, type a topic name (for example, Employee_Name.htm) or an alias map number (for example, 1).
  6. Select Resource pane to display the HTML text directly in the Resource pane.
  7. Optionally, if you have a specific window style you want your help to appear in, include the window name after a right-angle bracket at the end of the topic name, for example, topic_title.htm>secondary window.
  8. Optionally, to reference a bookmark, include the pound sign between the topic tile and the bookmark name—for example, topic_title.htm#bookmark_name.)

To display the help text in a pop-up window, enter a context ID map number for the pop-up help in the Topic field. If your context-sensitive help is saved as something other than popup.txt (the default file name for which HotDocs searches), you must include the file name after the map number (for example, 1:context.txt) When the user views the resource pane, HotDocs displays a link which the user must click. At that point, a What's This? help-style window appears.