Verifying Entry Points

If you are writing application-specific help that uses IDs to access particular help topics, there are two ways to verify that the IDs have been properly established within the help volume:

• Run your application and request help just as a user will, trying each of the entry points. This also verifies that the application is using the correct IDs.

• If your application is not ready to use (still under development), you can test each ID by running dthelpview for each ID:

  dthelpview -helpVolume volume.sdl -locationId id 
  

  Where id is the location ID that you want to test. If dthelpview displays the correct topic, then the ID is okay.