With RoboHELP, you can create any of the major Help formats such as Microsoft HTML Help, WebHelp, JavaHelp, or Oracle Help in the same intuitive and powerful environment.
While there are different types of Help formats, they have the same basic characteristics and meet the same needs. A few universal features you'll see in the major Help formats include:
Graphical navigation and organization support (including multilevel indexes and tables of contents)
Popup windows
Automatic page-turners (called browse sequences)
Related topic cross-references (called Related Topics or related topics)
Full-text searches
Help windows describing what's currently displayed (context-sensitive Help)
Most Help formats also include field-level and screen-level Help, overview topics, and task-oriented topics.
End users' needs also remain constant across Help formats: To find information quickly so they can complete a task or read more about a concept or terminology. No matter what the format or what information is required, Help meets these needs consistently and effectively by providing superior navigation and organization tools.
The main difference between Help formats is what type of viewer or platform they're used with. It may be necessary to use JavaHelp on an application written in the Java programming language. Or you may need to deliver Help for a Web-based application using WebHelp. Regardless of the platform or viewer, you can create consistently effective Help systems using RoboHELP.
An added bonus of RoboHELP is the ability to use a single Help project to generate multiple types of Help formats. All the features that make Help systems useful are retained, such as a detailed table of contents, a multilevel index, full-text search capability, and graphical navigation aids — no matter which Help format you select. For example, you can create a Help system and printed documentation from one file, eliminating the need to maintain two source files.
Whichever Help format you need, RoboHELP can create it for you. RoboHELP is the result of 15 years of experience on Help authors' desktops — we've had time to perfect the tools you need to create Help systems in any format.