[rkannappan]

I need to launch the help window from welcome screen. I know how to do this from the java code, but not sure how to this from the html welcome screen page.

For example, the welcome screen in Eclipse IDE does this. When I click on a link in the welcome screen, it opens up the help window and shows the corresponding help topic. Can anyone point me how to launch the help window from welcome screen?

Thanks,

- Raja.

[benoit.lagree]

in the xml file describing your welcome page, you can use the following lines (here to display the help what's new section )

<!-- What's new -->
<group style-id="category">
<group style-id="category_image" id="category_image_whatsnew" bgImage="../intro/whatsnew/whatsnew.png" />
<group style-id="category_text" id="category_text_whatsnew" bgImage="../intro/whatsnew/whatsnew_text.png" />
<link url="http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/showHelpTopic id=/test.help/html/whatsnew.htm" id="discover">
</link>
</group>

hope that helps,

Benoit.

[rkannappan]

Thanks for the hint. It works when I'm in my XML, say introcontent.xml. But, in our case, the intro XML file calls XHTML pages, something like

<page id="xyz" content="content/xyz.xhtml"/>

and that works. But, when I place my link inside the xhtml page, it does not work. Is there a way to open the help from within the XHTML content?

- Raja.

[rkannappan]

Got this working in the XHTML page also. My link now looks like this in XHTML page, in case anyone is interested:

<a href="http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/showHelpTopic?id=/test.help/html/test.html" id="test">
Introduction to Test.
</a>

Thanks.