Help Contents

The Help Contents is a hierarchical view of all the CICS Explorer™ help topics arranged in a tree. You can expand the tree branches to show individual topics that are displayed with a single mouse click.

The help contents are displayed in a separate help window outside the workbench. The window has two panes. The left pane displays either the contents tree, help index, search results, or bookmarks, depending on which tab is selected. The right pane displays the detailed help for the topic selected in the left pane.

Help Contents view

The help window tabs

The tabs at the bottom of the left pane determine which information is displayed in the pane. The choices are described in the table below.

Table 1. Help window tabs
Tab name Description
Contents The default setting. Displays a hierarchical view of the help contents.
Index Displays the help index.
Search Results Displays the results of a help search.
Bookmarks Displays a list of the topics you have bookmarked.

The help window icons

The toolbar in the left pane contains the following icons. The available icons depend on the currently selected tab. Position your mouse cursor over an icon to see its name. The icons at the top of the pane are described in the table below.

Table 2. Left pane icons
Icon name Description
Print Topics Prints either the selected topic, or the selected topic and all sub topics.
Collapse All Collapses the tree expansion for all topics on the page.
Refresh / Show Current® Topic Shows the position in the contents pane, of the topic currently displayed in the detail pane.
Maximize Maximizes the contents pane to the full size of the window. The detail pane is hidden.
Show result categories Shows or hides the categories for the displayed search results.
Show result descriptions Shows or hides a short description for the displayed search results.
Delete selected bookmark Removes the selected bookmark from the list
Delete all bookmarks Removes all bookmarks from the list.

The toolbar in the right pane contains the following icons. The available icons depends on the currently selected tab. Position your mouse cursor over an icon to see its name. The icons at the top of the right pane are described in the table below.

Table 3. Right pane top icons
Icon name Description
Go Back Displays the topic that was viewed before the current topic.
Go Forward Displays the topic that is after the current topic, if applicable.
Home Opens the home topic; that is, the topic at the top of the content tree.
Show in Table of Contents Shows the position in the contents pane of the topic currently displayed in the detail pane.
Bookmark Document Creates a bookmark for the current page. Access the bookmarks from the Bookmarks page in the dynamic Help view or by clicking the Bookmark icon at the bottom of the contents pane.
Print Page Prints the contents of the detail pane.
Maximize Maximizes the detail pane to the full size of the window. The contents pane is hidden.
Highlight search terms When viewing a topic found as the result of a search, clicking this icon highlights, or resets the highlighting for, the search phrase in the topic.