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Platform/InfoCenter
< Platform
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
Blog posts:
- Little Known Things about the Eclipse Infocenter (blog post series by Holger Voormann)
- Generating Eclipse Help from existing HTML Documentation