RE: UIM Search Indexes

On Monday, April 27, 1998 1:51 PM, Bleddyn Williams 
[SMTP:bleddyn@morpheus.ltd.uk] wrote:
> Hi I've created a number of UIM panel groups containing help text.

-snip-

> I've noticed that the IBM-supplied search indexes organise their
> help
> topics in a hierarchy. If a topic is shown with a "+" beside it,
> the
> user is able to expand that topics to see the sub-topics that exist
> beneath it. In turn, some of these may be expanded until they
> eventually find the topic they want to view.

Bleddyn,
  Here's an example substantially lifted (IIRC) from the Application 
Display Programming manual:

For the benefit of those readers who might want to tinker with help 
panels, this goes in QPNLSRC (I called it by the imaginative name of 
TEST)

:PNLGRP.

:ISCHSYN ROOT='root'.root base main start help
:ISCHSYN ROOT='words'.words word phrase symbol

:HELP name=mainhelp.
:ISCH roots='root words'.
Main Help Topic
:ISCHSUBT topics='help1'
          topics='help2'.
:P.
Lines of text for main topic.
:EHELP.

:HELP name=help1.
:ISCH roots='root words'.
Help number 1
:ISCHSUBT topics='help3 help4'.
:P.
Lines of text for sub topic help1.
:EHELP.

:HELP name=help2.
:ISCH roots='root words'.
Help number 2
:ISCHSUBT topics='help3'.
:P.
Lines of text for sub topic help2.
:EHELP.

:HELP name=help3.
:ISCH roots='root words'.
Help number 3
:P.
Lines of text for sub topic help3.
:EHELP.

:HELP name=help4.
:ISCH roots='root words'.
Help number 4
:P.
Lines of text for sub topic help4.
:EHELP.

:EPNLGRP.

create the panel group:
CRTPNLGRP PNLGRP(BUCK/TEST)
          SRCFILE(BUCK/QPNLSRC)

then create a search index object:
CRTSCHIDX SCHIDX(BUCK/TEST) TITLE('Testing subtopics')

then add the panel group to the search index:
ADDSCHIDXE SCHIDX(BUCK/TEST) PNLGRP(BUCK/TEST)

then try it out:
STRSCHIDX TEST

hope this helps!

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net

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