Platform/InfoCenter

Description

The Info Center is the component responsible for displaying help content to the user. "Help" is one of the basic components of the User Assistance.

Corresponding user manual: User assistance support (in particular the "Help" section)

Offline

Available under:

"Help" > "Help Contents"

Online instance

There is one instance of the online Infocenter per release train.

Browse the Luna version online: http://help.eclipse.org/luna/index.jsp

With each release train, the content is collected using a bug:

• Neon.1 bug 500938
• Neon bug 495171
• Mars.2: bug 477616 (same as for Mars.1)
• Mars.1: bug 477616
• Mars: bug 469456
• Luna: bug 436372
• Kepler: bug 408828

Projects / Git repositories

• The user assistance components (help is one of them) are located in the eclipse.platform.ua.git repository

• The user guide “User assistance support” Guide is located in the eclipse.platform.common.git repository.

The corresponding toc file:

   /bundles/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/topics_Guide.xml

See also

• Platform
• User Assistance

Blog posts:

• Little Known Things about the Eclipse Infocenter (blog post series by Holger Voormann)
  • Basic and Bot Mode (1/5)
  • Deep Linking (2/5)
  • Search Links (3/5)
  • Language Switching (4/5)
  • Debugging Information (5/5)
• Generating Eclipse Help from existing HTML Documentation