What's New in Oxygen XML Webhelp 19.1
September 29, 2017
Related version: 19.0
Oxygen XML WebHelp version 19.1 is the latest release for the modern web publishing system. This release includes a variety of improvements to help make your WebHelp output even more responsive and intuitive for your audience. For this version, we focused much of our efforts on enhancing various components in the WebHelp Responsive system to make it easier for the end user to navigate through your documentation.
WebHelp Responsive
Side TOC Component Improvements
The side TOC component received a lot of improvements to make
it easier to navigate through the topics in your documentation. It now
includes expand/collapse buttons that you can use to see the child topics for a particular
topic. Also, when you hover over a topic, a short description is now displayed in a
tooltip. Furthermore, you can now control whether the side TOC will
only present topics from the active chapter or all topics from your entire
publication.
WebHelp Menu is Created Dynamically
The WebHelp menu was redesigned so that it is created
dynamically when the user hovers over a certain topic. This reduces the size of the
generated HTML files and increases the loading speed.
Automatic Permanent Links
Automatic permanent links are generated for topics that
contain inner sub-sections. These links are useful when you want to share an exact section
from your documentation with others.
Index Terms Page Redesigned
The index page was redesigned and improved. An alphabet that
contains the first letter of the documentation index terms is now generated at the top of
the index page. Each letter represents a link to a specific indices section. More over,
the indexes are presented in multiple columns to make it easier to read this page.
Next/Previous Navigation Buttons
Next and Previous navigational
buttons are generated depending on the
collection-type="sequence" attribute that is set on the topic
references in your DITA map. If you don't want to set this attribute on all
topicref elements, you can instead use the
webhelp.default.collection.type.sequence parameter to set the default
value for the collection-type attribute to
sequence.