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VPLUS/Windows Help Facility The VPLUS/Windows help facility uses the Microsoft Windows Help application to retrieve and display your application help text. This help facility enables you to provide customized help text that users can access in the application window. You can provide general help topics and context-sensitive help topics for application forms, fields, key labels, and the window line. Help File The presentation server uses the help index feature of Microsoft Windows help to support general application help. When the help writer creates a help project file, the writer designates one topic as an index topic. Although the index topic can contain any information the help writer chooses, it usually contains a list of topic titles and enables a user to browse through the actual topics. A help file is associated with a specific forms file. A help file must have the same name as the forms file with an added MS-DOS extension of .HLP. The help writer must provide a separate help file for each forms file when an application has multiple forms files. Context Numbers The presentation server supports the context-sensitive form components by providing a predefined context number for each component that a user can select. A user can obtain context-sensitive help by using the pointer to point to a field, a key label, the window line, or the overall form. The presentation server uses the context number to direct the Microsoft Windows help application to the corresponding topic in the help file for the particular component that a user selects. If the context number is not included in the help file, the Help Index appears, but the help application displays a message indicating that help is not available for this item.