Before We Begin

Before we begin this tutorial, there are just a couple of things you should know.

Understanding Context-Sensitive Help

Context-sensitive Help (CSH) is a way to tie your topics or micro content with links or specific areas of a software interface. For example, when users click a particular part of the interface (e.g., a Help button), the topic or micro content pertaining to it opens. This is different from a lot of features in Flare Desktop in that it usually requires a collaboration between the author and a software developer. The key to this relationship is the sharing of IDs that connect the specific pieces of documentation with the software user interface or links. See Context-Sensitive Help.

Limitations of This Tutorial

Since CSH often involves a developer who is working on a software product, and we don't have that kind of resource in this tutorial, we aren't going to try to simulate that entire process. However, at the end of the tutorial, we will use a "call" to bring up specific documentation. It's the same information a developer would use to complete the connection on the software side, but we will use it in a slightly different, simpler way for the author to open the same output.