Project Properties Reference

The Project Properties section in the Project menu is the control center for your project. Unlike the settings in Tools > Customize (which are program settings), all the settings you enter here are stored in your current .HMX project file and are only available to the project in which they are stored. They define all the basic parameters for your help project and how it is output to the formats supported by the program.

Using variables in Project Properties:

You can use both user-defined variables and global variables in the text fields in Project Properties. For example, in the Copyright: field in Title & Copyright you might want to enter something like: © <%YEAR%> by <%AUTHOR%>

There are three groups of settings in Project Properties: General settings, help window settings and output format settings.

General settings:

These settings are stored in the Common Properties section. They define things like the name of your project displayed in help window title bars, copyright messages, language settings, where images used in the project are stored, text variables used in the project and so on.

It is always a good idea to check all the settings in this section when you create a new project.

Help window settings:

These settings define the appearance and behavior of the viewers and/or windows used to display your help in electronic help formats (HTML Help, Winhelp Note that Windows Vista does not support Winhelp. If you want to be compatible with Vista you must transition to a different help format., Browser-based Help and eBooks).

Not all settings here are relevant for all output formats. For more information see Help Windows in the Reference section.

Output format settings:

These settings are organized in sections by output format. They allow you to control how each output format is handled, providing a high degree of customization. For example, in all the HTML-based formats you can edit the HTML templates used to generate your topics and all the other pages generated by Help & Manual when you compile your project.

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