Assigning information types to books and pages

After you create information types, you can assign them to books and pages in your table of contents.

Note: If you've already assigned information types to topics that will be added to the TOC as books and pages, you do not need to assign the information types to the books or pages as well. The Topic Properties (including assigned information types) will be carried over to the book and page properties.

To assign information types to books and pages:

  1. Click the TOC tab.

  2. From the TOC Composer, select the book or page.

  3. Click Properties .

  4. Click the General tab.

  5. In Type, select Use Information Types.

    By default, the program highlights the topic that is associated with the item you selected from the TOC Composer. It appears in the Topic list at the left.

  6. Click Robohtml00000089.gif. The topic is added to the Selected Topics list on the right. The topic is added as a folder icon and two pages appear below it (for primary and secondary target topics). This adds the topic to the Selected Topics list. You can now assign information types to it.

Note: The current version of Microsoft HTML Help does not support secondary topics (do not select the page 2 icon).

  1. Select the topic folder from the Selected Topics list, and then click Information Types.

  2. From the list of available information types, select the ones you want to assign to the TOC item.

Note: If you have not created information types for your project, you will not see any listed at this dialog. For details on creating information types, see Defining information types and categories.