Rich Visual Topic Editor with Page MapThe HelpStudio Topic Editor features world class editing features together with a template based layout that reduces to a minimum the amount of formatting you need to do on a Topic by Topic basis.
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 | The editable area of the Topic is bordered by a dotted line. The header and footer areas around this are generated using a customizable HTML based template. Different types of Topics can use different page types if required; saving time and effort formatting individual topics and making it quick and easy to change the look and feel of your content over time or for different outputs without re-working the actual topic content. |
 | Dynamic spell checking in the Topic editor makes it easy to spot typos as you work. |
 | The buttons in the See Also section (visible only when you are editing the Topic, not in the output) can be used to manage the list of See Also links for this Topic. |
 | As well as the visual editor, you can edit the topic content XHTML source (with intellisense and tag completion), preview how the Topic will look in the generated help, define Tasks to manage Topic progress and define custom Index Keywords for the Topic. |
This video provides an introduction to the Widgets functionality, outlining how they can be inserted in content and demonstrating some of the common Widget types including Drop Down Sections, Note boxes and Colorized Example Code. (4 minutes)
This video provides an overview of the core content editing fundamentals, including using the Page Map, inserting Tables, applying formatting, defining styles and hyperlinking. (10 minutes)
This video introduces some of the key fundamentals of working with the Topic Editor, including how to create and open Topics for edit, side by side editing, using the different edit views, and switching between different profiles whilst editing. (7 minutes)
Template Based Topic LayoutHelpStudio Topics are based on a page layout template that makes it easy to create a professional layout quickly and to customize and adapt the layout over time without having to modify each Topic individually.
Create custom Templates to define a common topic structure and style across your projects.
Link DesignerCreating links in the content that you author improves the usability of your help by providing quick and easy access to related content.
In HelpStudio you can create links between your content using standard hyperlinks, or See Also links that are grouped at the end of a given page.
Links can refer to:
Lightbox HelpStudio provides you with all the tools you need to author, build and publish great documentation, help or procedures with minimum friction.
Lightbox The Topic Editor provides powerful authoring functionality including a page map, table editing (row, column or cell cut/copy/paste, resize), unlimited undo, hyperlink designer, build flag highlighting. The Xhtml source editor includes intellisense and tag completion.
Lightbox Creating links in the content that you author improves the usability of your help by providing quick and easy access to related content. In HelpStudio you can create links between your content using standard hyperlinks, or See Also links that are grouped at the end of a given page.
Lightbox Delivering great help content often requires a trade off between the time invested in creating dynamic content and the benefits it brings to the users of the content. You no longer need to comprimise - Widgets allow you to deliver dynamic content (e.g. drop down sections, enlarge in place images, colorized example code) without requiring any manual authoring effort and with no need to have HTML or Javascript knowledge. Simply drop a pre-defined Widget in your content and /HelpStudio will take care of the rest.
Lightbox /Model.ProductCaption includes a variety of functionality for the creation, management and application of styles. Built around powerful web standard CSS, you can apply existing styles using the Style Picker, define new style rules or inline styles using the Style Editor and edit your Stylesheets in the built in Stylesheet editor.
Lightbox HelpStudio supports Unicode throughout, including Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Unicode support is not a high priced add-on, it is a fundamental feature of the core product.
