Widgets are a configurable and extendable library of content helpers with related resources. Using Widgets where suitable delivers a number of benefits:
Widgets reduce duplication of effort by allowing you to quickly create common content;
Widgets help to enforce consistency across your projects;
Widgets allow you to separate presentation from content by defining the style and structure of common content elements;
Widgets are stored as XML in your content, but are authored entirely inline in the same way as your other content.
Standard Widget Types that ship with HelpStudio include:
Note, Tip and Caution boxes;
Dynamic Image (enlarge / collapse a thumbnail image in place);
Colorized Example Code;
Include Topic (include the content of one Topic in another);
Expandable Text;
Drop down section;
QR Code (generate a QR Bar Code from some specified text);
In this Topic list (automatically generated bookmark links to headings in a long Topic);
Mini Toc (a portion of the Table of Contents rendered as a hierarchical set of links);
Authoring Note (content that only exists for reference by content authors and should not appear in any outputs).