What's New in Oxygen XML Webhelp 20.0
March 16, 2018
Related version: 20.1
Version 20.0 of the Oxygen XML WebHelp 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.
WebHelp Responsive Publishing
Publishing Templates
Oxygen version 20 introduces the Oxygen
Publishing Templates. They define all aspects of the look and feel (layout and
styles) of the WebHelp Responsive output. These templates represent a customization package that you can easily share with your team. It is designed
as a self-contained package stored either as a ZIP archive or as a folder on
disk.
Built-in Publishing Templates Gallery
Oxygen comes with a built-in publishing
templates gallery, available in the Templates tab in WebHelp
Responsive transformation scenarios. You can easily find the template you want by using
the filtering options and the template preview images.
User Defined Publishing Templates Galleries
If you define multiple Publishing Templates then you can organize them into a
gallery, a folder containing multiple publishing templates, to easily share them with
others. The WebHelp Responsive transformation scenarios now include a Configure Publishing Templates Gallery option in the
Templates tab allowing you to specify directories where your
custom templates are stored. The templates stored in these additional directories will
appear in the preview pane.
Topic Table of Contents Component
A table of contents component displaying links to each section within the
current topic can now be included in the topic page. The section corresponding to the
current scroll position is highlighted. You can use the
webhelp.show.topic.toc parameter to specify whether or not this table of contents component will be visible.
Highlight Image Map Hotspots
Image map hotspots are highlighted when you move the mouse over the
image.
Improved Default Layout
The default layout of the WebHelp Responsive output was improved to make it easier
to browse your documentation. The main publication table of contents component was moved
to the left side and you can use it to find specific topics and then the new topic TOC
component that appears on the right side of each topic page helps you to navigate through
the major sections of that topic.
Expand/Collapse Sections
A new Expand/Collapse Sections button was added to the navigation actions
and it allows you to easily expand or collapse all the topic sections.
Control the Initial State of Collapsible Elements
A new parameter was added to set the initial state of the collapsible elements.
The parameter name is webhelp.topic.collapsible.elements.initial.state and its
possible values are: collapsed or expanded (default
value).
Display Images
For the responsive images that are displayed with a smaller dimension than its
original size, you can click the image to enlarge it in a popup window.
Responsive Videos
If you have embedded videos in WebHelp Responsive output, they are now resized
automatically according to the size of the browser.