Topic Types

Basic

Name The name of the style or topic type.

Navigation

Auto Subtopic Links If selected, subtopic buttons and links will be displayed automatically for this paragraph style, if this heading style has topics below it in the hierarchy. For example, if a topic with a Heading 1 style has topics with the Heading 2 style following it (these are subtopics), then in the online output the Heading 1 topic will automatically have links to the Heading 2 topics at the bottom.
Auto Link When selected, creates a unique link tag for topics formatted with this paragraph style or topic type. Link tags created in this manner are identical to the topic title except that spaces, hyphens, and periods are converted into underscores.
Auto Navigate If selected, this paragraph style or topic types will be included in the navigation sequence.
Auto Next If selected, enables the next topic button for this paragraph style or topic type. A next topic button is displayed at the end of each associated topic that links it to the next topic.
Explicit Access If selected, defines this paragraph style or topic type as accessible only through a hyperlink. Paragraph styles and topic types defined as explicit are not accessible from the Help contents, the index list, or the text search.
Mid-topic If selected, defines this paragraph style or topic type as an "in topic" jump location similar to an HTML anchor. By defining a paragraph style or topic type as mid-topic and defining a character style as a jump, you can create jump functionality within a lengthy topic.

Display

Contents Only If this check box is selected for this paragraph style or topic type, the topics formatted with this paragraph style or topic type are omitted from the Help target, but are used as book titles in the Help contents.
Popup If this check box is selected for this paragraph style or topic type, any topic formatted with this paragraph style or topic type will appear in a pop-up window on top of the Help window.
Use Comments If selected, all topics with this topic type will have DISQUS commenting enabled in NetHelp targets.See Adding DISQUS Commenting to NetHelp Targets.
Suppress Empty Topics If selected, omits empty topics (those with a title and no text) defined with this paragraph style or topic type from online output. These topics will still be included in the TOC. This check box can be selected for a Contents topic type that is commonly used for the top-level style, such as Heading 1. If this style usually contains no text, it may be preferable that these empty topics are not shown in the Help window when the user selects the corresponding book title in the TOC.
Untitled If selected, the topic title is not displayed in the Help window.
Exclude from Search If selected, all topics with this topic type will not be displayed in search results.
Replacement In certain cases, returns a string that overrides the generated default text. For paragraph styles and topic types with the "Auto next" check box selected, this string is used instead of the topic title next to the generated button. For character styles with the "Include page number in reference" check box selected, this string specifies the format of page number references in printed manual targets. This string is ignored unless it contains a pound sign, which is replaced with a PAGEREF field.
Window The name of the window in which topics formatted in this style are displayed.

Behavior

Auto Context ID If selected, Context IDs are automatically created for all topics using this paragraph style or topic type.
Auto Keyword If selected, index keywords will automatically be created from topic titles formatted with this paragraph style or topic type. The keywords will be associated with the appropriate topic.
Script Displays the script to be run during compilation whenever text formatted with this style is encountered.