Oracle Help views and remote views

Oracle Help uses a concept called "views" to define what is displayed in the Oracle Help Navigator window in the left-hand pane. This window is similar to the HTML Help Navigation pane that appears on the left side of the HTML Help viewer. Currently, three different types of views are supported by Oracle Help: table of contents views, keyword index views, and full-text search views. When you generate an Oracle Help project from RoboHELP, you choose which views to include. You also have the option to add an image (in .GIF file format) to the tab of any views.

You can also add remote views to your Oracle Help projects. A remote view is an external table of contents, index, or full-text search database. Remote views are helpful if you are merging smaller projects into one master project or if you are creating a large Help system that is easier to navigate if it is organized into smaller sections.

When you add a remote view you can specify that it remain separated on its own tab or that it be merged with an existing view. Oracle Help merges all views with the same engine, type and label (i.e., table of contents views with the same type, engine, and label are appended together; index views with the same type, engine, and label are merged in a sorted order; and search views with the same type and label are merged).

Labels and titles

In Oracle Help there is an important distinction between labels and titles:

Following are links to several examples of how table of contents views and remote views can be used in Oracle Help projects. (Index and full-text search views and remote views can use similar scenarios.)

Example 1 - Merging two tables of contents together

Example 2 - Merging two tables of contents together and creating a title for each

Example 3 - Adding two tables of contents and creating separate tabs for each