Adding a custom help topic to the help table of contents

When you add online help for a custom portal page and set the topic context key, the information can be accessed only by opening the new portal page and clicking the help link.

This task shows how to make the help topic accessible from the default help table of contents as well.

In the Portal Manager, select Content Development > All Components.
Expand Help Assets > Portals > applicable help folder.
Find the nav_toc.html topic and drag it to your desktop.
Right-click the file and select Open with. Choose your HTML editor or Notepad. Do not open the file with Microsoft Word.
In the file, locate where to add a link for your custom help topic.
For this example, add this line: <li class="book page"> <span class="ihtree-title"> <a href="CustomHelp.html">topic title</a> </span>
Update the topic title variable in this line to match the title of your help topic.
Save your changes. Do not change the file name.
Drag the file back to its collection in the Portal Manager.
To review the change, open or refresh your portal website and click the help icon on any page other than your custom page. At the bottom of the help topic that opens, click Contents. You should see the link to your custom help topic in the list.

Caution:

You can add more links in the .html files, to further embed your custom help topic into the existing help set. However, if we deliver updated help files in new portal content versions, it is possible that these links could be broken. You must test and maintain all links that you add.