You have a lot of flexibility in how you set up projects. You can start new projects and design as you work or make use of templates to create projects based on a set of pre-defined files.
If you are developing a large Help project, you can create smaller projects, compile them separately and deliver them as one document set. You also have options for consolidating table of contents and indexes. You can import Help systems and a variety of files to save time.
Create your content in an easy-to-use WYSIWYG Editor. Use it to enter information, format text, add tables, insert links and images, create hotspots and add special effects. You can also work with and apply different styles while editing topics.
When users start your Help system, they see information displayed in a Help viewer. From there, they can select pages from the Contents tab, select keywords from the Index tab, and enter text at the Search tab to find information and view topics. These tabs are the fundamental ways users find topics. Once they start viewing, they can click links to go to other places.
You create a table of contents so users can open topics from the Contents tab. You build a keyword list and link topics to them to design an index. Full-text search is automatically provided for you as a Help system feature.
You have many options for providing navigation within topics. You can add simple text links, link controls (clickable buttons that enable users to go to topics based on similar concepts), and URLs to places on the Internet.
A variety of features can help keep you organized, improve your productivity and save you time. You can work with files and folders in the Project Manager, view links to and from topics in Link View, use various reports to find out about different components in your project, keep up-to-date with authoring tasks through topic properties, and create different versions of your Help systems using build tags.
When you enable WebSearch in your Help system, end users get customized, context-sensitive Internet searches right from the compiled Help window. WebSearch detects which components of the Help system it should search for, providing users with Internet search results based on the content of the Help system. For example, searches can target a topic title, or index (K-Keywords) terms for a topic, or even the table of contents book names in the Help system. It's a fast and convenient way to extend Help for your users.
Providing users with WebSearch is easy. When you create a new Help project, you simply select Enable WebSearch in the New Project Wizard. To add the functionality to an existing project, you select Enable WebSearch in the Project Settings dialog. You can customize WebSearch too, specifying which components of your Help system to search for and special phrases or words to include.
Provide end users with customized, context-sensitive Internet searches right from the compiled Help window. When you enable the WebSearch button in your project, users can get more information about the Help topics and other content, as well as the application they're using.
You don't have to write user manuals and other publications in third-party tools. You can use the files in your Help projects to create printed documents in Microsoft Word format. This can save you weeks — or even months — of work. You can select which topics to include and the Printed Document Wizard will create the files for you in Word format. Your topics can include formatting, images, glossary definitions, colors, and keywords. You can even have a ready-made table of contents, index and glossary.
RoboHELP provides you with many features for designing attractive, fully functional projects complete with topics, customized windows, graphics, visual effects, and easy-to-find information.
Extend Help information with Internet searches
Create user manuals and other documentation
Create hassle-free Help for your applications