Windchill System Administrator's Guide

The rest of this appendix provides detailed instructions on how to make these
customizations.
Caution: When you customize online help, always work with a copy of the
online help files. After you have ensured that your customizations work properly,
you can copy your changes to the correct directory.
Customizing Topic Content
Adding a New Topic
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1. For important information about linked style sheets, see Customizing Topic Appearance.
This section describes how to add, edit, and delete WebHelp topic content.
To add a topic to a WebHelp system, simply create an HTML file using any
standard HTML editor or text editor. Make sure you save the topic with an .html
extension, rather than .htm or another extension.
To make sure the headings and other styles are correct, you may want to insert a
temporary link to the WebHelp cascading style sheets (CSS), nm.css. This style
sheet is stored in each online help directory. (You insert the permanent link to this
style sheet later.)
In addition to providing style rules for standard elements, such as headings,
nm.css defines several styles that you may want to use in your new topic. For
additional information, see Customizing Topic Appearance.
When you have finished writing the content and applying standard styles, you
must make the following modifications to the file:
• Add standard comments and links to the topic element.
• Add standard scripts and script references to the topic element.
These modifications are described in detail in the following sections.
Modifying the Topic Head Element
In order to use PTC standard styles and to successfully integrate the new topics in
the help, each topic must include the standard help system header. Insert this code
in the element of your new topics below the TITLE element: