No. It is not necessary for you to create information types
in your HTML Help project. In fact, some authors may not want to use information
types at all. If you think information types would be a useful way for
users to find the specific information that they need, consider including
them in your project.
Yes. You first define a category, and then create and assign
information types to that category.
With the current version of Microsoft HTML Help, it is not
possible to filter the Index and Search tabs to support information types.
No. If you remove a category, you also remove all of its
information types.
No. You can decide which topics should be assigned to information
types and which ones are available to users, independent of the information
types in your project. In fact, if you want certain topics to always be
available from the Contents tab, do not assign information types to them.
You can add, remove, and modify information types and categories
after you create them.
No. An information type is either Inclusive or Exclusive,
but not both.
You can create as many as 10 categories and 32 different
information types in each HTML Help project.
Frequently asked
questions about information types
Here are some the answers to some questions you may have about information
types.