Adding a Web Toolbar to HTML Help Output

If you incorporate MadCap Feedback into your Flare project and generate Microsoft HTML Help output, a web toolbar is automatically added to the top of each topic in the CHM file. However, this toolbar is not only for MadCap Feedback. Even if you are not using Feedback in your project, you can add the web toolbar to your Microsoft HTML Help output.

In addition to submitting topic ratings and comments, the default buttons in the web toolbar let users expand or collapse Dynamic HTML effects (e.g., drop-down text, expanding text), search, go to the next or previous topic, and more. You can change the buttons included in the web toolbar, removing ones you do not want and adding others. See Web Toolbars in HTML5 Output.

How to Add a Web Toolbar to HTML Help Output

  1. Open a Standard skin.
  2. Select the HTML Help Setup tab.
  3. Click Display toolbar in each topic.
  4. Click Save the active file. to save your work.

Note You can also specify which buttons should be included in the navigation toolbar at the top of the CHM window. See Specifying Buttons for HTML Help Output.

Note As an alternative, you can add a web toolbar with the help of a topic toolbar proxy. This lets you add a toolbar in specific places within topics, as well as limit the topics that have the toolbar. See Inserting and Editing a Topic Toolbar Proxy.

What’s Next?

Make sure that you associate the skin with the target. See Associating Skins With Targets.