# Help view

The Help view provides user assistance inside the Workbench. The view consists of four pages providing user assistance. Each page presents help topics in a slightly different fashion. Hyper links at the bottom of the help view allow switching among pages, and clicking any topic will display its contents.

## Related Topics

The Related Topics page shows description and help topics related to the current workbench context. The topics include context help, as well as the result of a local help search on the current context, presented in "Dynamic Help" section of the page. For example, if the currently active workbench part is 'Package Explorer' inside the Java perspective, local help will find and present topics describing "Package Explorer view" or "Java perspective". The Related Topics page tracks changes in the workbench and continuously updates displayed information.

## All Topics

The All Topics page shows the Table of Contents. It is a hierarchy of all help topics arranged in a tree The tree branches can be expanded to browse topics that can be displayed using a single mouse click.

## Search

The Search page allows locating local topics, remote documents, and other documents given a search query. Links to search hits are displayed along with a summary of topic contents. Search scope controls a subset of documentation being searched. Multiple search scopes can be configured, each defining a custom set of resources from among local documentation, additional local search engines or remote engines on the web.

## Bookmarks

The Bookmarks shows topics marked as personal bookmarks.

## Toolbar

The toolbar of the Help view contains the following buttons. The available buttons depends on the currently displayed page.

Back
  Displays the page or the topic that was displayed immediately prior to the current display.
Forward
  Displays the page or the topic was displayed immediately after the current display.
Collapse All
  Collapses the tree expansion state of all topics on the page.
Show All Topics
  When filtering of workbench elements is enabled, the buttons enables displaying topics for disabled elements.
Show Result Categories
  Switches between sorting search results by relevance and by logical containers for example books.
Show Result Descriptions
  Displays short description of each search hit, when available.
Menu
  Provides menu items that allow you switching help view pages.

## Icons

The following icons can appear in the Navigator view.

Icon | Description
--- | ---
| Book (closed)
| Book (closed)
| Topic (container)
| Topic
| Search of local help
| Search of remote info-center
| Search of web engine
| Open link in a help window
| Bookmark document
| Bookmarked document

Views

Opening views
Moving and docking views
Creating fast views

Help window