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Using Styles to Determine the Display for Help Control Links

This feature is supported in DotNet Help, HTML Help, WebHelp, WebHelp Plus, WebHelp AIR, and WebHelp Mobile output.

When you insert Help control links (concept links, index keyword links, related topics links), you can specify whether the default setting for Help control links should be "list" or "popup" (see Inserting Concept Links into Topics, Inserting Keyword Links into Topics, and Inserting Related Topics Links into Topics). This can be done at the time you insert the link, but you can also use the following steps to specify this setting on a style. Therefore, that Help control link will always be used as the default setting, unless you override it at the spot where you have inserted the link. By default this is already set to "popup" for all of the Help control link types, but you might want to change it to "list."

How to use styles to determine the display for Help control links

Open the style sheet that you want to modify.
In the local toolbar, make sure the first button displays (which means that the Advanced view is currently shown in the editor). If the button displays instead, then click it.
In the upper-left corner of the editor, click in the Show Styles field and select Show Reusable Content Styles.
In the Styles section on the left side of the editor, find and select one of the following, depending on the type of Help control link: MadCap|conceptLink, MadCap|keywordLink, or MadCap|relatedTopics.
From the Show Properties drop-down list on the upper-right side of the editor, select Show: Set Properties. This displays only the properties that have been set for that particular style.
From the Properties section, expand the Unclassified property group.
Click in the cell to the right of mc-help-control-display and select one of the options.
- list Displays the related links in a simple list.
- popup Displays the related links in a popup window.
Press CTRL+S or click to save your work.