Oracle Help for the Web Client (OHW-RC) Production Release 5.0
Features
Date of Release : 7/1/2009

Contents

• About
  
• New Features
  

About

• Oracle Help for the Web Rich Client (OHW-RC) is a new user interface for the Oracle Help Technologies family of help system products.
• OHW RC is a web application built with the new rich client ADF Faces 11g components . It provides full support for the Oracle Help file formats and is intended to replace OHW UIX.
• OHW RC can be used to provide context-sensitive help for web applications or as a means for processing and displaying a structured view of independent HTML content on the web.
• OHW RC is used to provide the Help framework for Oracle Web Fusion applications such as Enterprise Manager, ODSM, and WebCenter.

New Features

Some of the new features in OHW RC are:

• Provides a familiar tri-pane (menu/toolbar, navigators, topic view) design, similar to Oracle Help for Java (OHJ) or Microsoft HTML Help.
• No full browser refresh when working with OHW-RC buttons and widgets.
• HelpProvider feature to provide embedded help information in Rich ADF Faces components.
• Users can view current navigator and current topic at the same time.
• Preloading feature to help reduce initialization of helpsets in cold loading.
• Provides richer interaction experience by utilizing scrolling instead of paging, supporting incremental find in the Index Navigator and so on.
• Adheres to the BLAF+ specifications to be consistent with Fusion Applications.
• Other functionality enhancements such as auto-synch support for table of content, quick search, look ahead of topic key in Index Navigator and support of custom navigator