There are two types of context-sensitive help: View context-sensitive help provides a short help overview for a specific view, and field context-sensitive help provides detailed help for a specific CICS® attribute.
To display the view context-sensitive help, bring the view to the front of the tab group by clicking its tab, and then pressing the help key, typically F1 (Ctrl-F1 on Linux).
The context help for that view is displayed in the Related Topics pane of the dynamic Help view in the workbench or in an infopop window, depending on the help preferences selected. A link is provided to more detailed help.
If you click the link, the detailed help is displayed in the dynamic Help view or in the Help Contents view if your preferences are set to use infopops.. The default size of the dynamic Help view is more suited for displaying context help, which is only an overview, but when displaying detailed help topics, you probably need to increase the size of the view or make extensive use of the view scroll bars. As an alternative, you can open the Help Contents window and display the topics in there.
If you have opened the detailed help in the dynamic Help
view, click the Show in external window icon at the top of the Help view.
The detailed help is displayed in the Help Contents window.
If you are viewing the context-sensitive help in the dynamic Help view, a help search is automatically performed and you are presented with additional links to other help topics that might be relevant. Click a link and follow the steps above to display the additional help.
Field context-sensitive help provides detailed help about a specific CICS attribute in the Property or Editor views.
To
display the field context-sensitive help, select an attribute in the
Property or Editor view, and then press the help key, typically F1
(Ctrl-F1 on Linux). The help
for the attribute is displayed in the dynamic Help view in the workbench.
You can view the context-sensitive help for the view by clicking the Help icon in the view.
You can detach the Help view from the CICS Explorer™ workbench so that it does not take space in the workbench: Right-click the Help tab and click Detached. The Help view opens in a new window and can be sized or positioned as you prefer. If you configured CICS Explorer to display help in an infopop window, then the help opens in a new window. This is because the size of the help displayed is too big to fit in an infopop window.
Each time you select a different attribute,
you must press the help key to display the help information. Alternatively,
you can click the help dynamic link button and dynamically link the help to the selected attribute,
so that when you click a different attribute, the help changes without
having to press the help key.