Adding online help

Creating the hook file

Hook files are located in /usr/lib/scohelp/hooks. To create a hook file, gather all the widget sums you collected in a file called managerGUI.hk, where managerGUI is name given to the name of the executable file of your SCOadmin manager. For example, the hook file for the Account Manager is called accountGUI.hk.

NOTE: The hook file name must also be defined as the HELPBOOK within your SCOadmin manager.

Each line in the hook file should contain the following, with each column separated by tabs:

widgetsum helpfile comment

``SCOadmin Accounts Manager hook file'' is an excerpt from the hook file for the Accounts Manager. Note that the hook file includes a reference to a node from another help topic.

A1465909414	uaN.adminacct.html	Accounts Manager top-level
A996144131	snmpD.snmpmgr_hostselect.html	Host>Select Host
A800903378	uaN.addinguser.html	Users>Add New User (menu)
A1302634565	uaN.addinguser.html	Users>Add New User (popup)
A932326465	uaT.chguid.html	Users>Add New User>User ID
A294792258	uaT.chgpw.html	Users>Add New User>Password
A1825117806	uaT.chgshell.html	Users>Add New User>Login Shell (field)
A878694369	uaT.chgshell.html	Users>Add New User>Login Shell (popup)

SCOadmin Accounts Manager hook file