Oracle Help is designed to be a powerful and comprehensive Help system. Here are some of the features available:
Oracle Help viewer: The HTML-based viewer consists of a topic window (uses HTML 4.0 for displaying topics) and navigator (contains the table of contents, index, and full-text search window).
Customizable windows: You can customize windows by changing their size, position, title, toolbar buttons, and color of background, text, and links.
Table of contents: Includes an unlimited number of hierarchical levels and collapsible/expandable topics. The table of contents can be printed.
Index: The index lists keywords alphabetically and supports one level of subkeywords.
Full-text search capability: Oracle Help's search engine examines the full text of the content. It supports multi-word queries, case-sensitivity, Boolean expressions, and results sorted by rank, topic title, or topic source.
Style Sheets: Most of your style sheet specifications are preserved in Oracle Help. Your Oracle Help project is displayed in the Oracle Help viewer which uses the ICE browser to render HTML code. The ICE browser fully supports style sheets.
Merging with navigational views: Oracle Help supports merging tables of contents, indexes, and full-text search databases through the use of views. You can create different views and then merge them together.
Printing: In Oracle Help, users can print the topic they are looking at by simply clicking the Print button on the Oracle Help viewer toolbar. They can also print multiple topics at the same time.
Context sensitive: Context-sensitive Help and ID mapping is provided in the Oracle Help API.
Popups: Links that open in their own special popup window are supported in Oracle Help.
ALinks: Associative links, links that display a group of HTML topics, are supported.
Compression: Oracle Help projects can be compressed into a single file in the Java Archive (JAR) format. The compression process dramatically reduces the size of your Oracle Help project so it requires less space when distributed.