Hidden Images and Information
Throughout the help system you will find icons (all following the same pattern) that give you access to additional text or pictures. Hiding additional text and images allows you to minimise the amount of data on the screen, keeping just the essential information visible for on-line browsing or printing.
You can instantly tell if the extra information for a particular icon is visible or not:
- Additional paragraphs or images are identifiable by an icon.
- Additional text within a paragraph is shown with a slightly different coloured background.
When printing, the topic will print as seen on the screen. So if you want to print with or without additional material, make sure you show or hide the material before printing.
Drop-down text
Drop-down text is a feature that allows the flow of text to be maintained by condensing some of the more detailed content so users initially see the essential outline information of the topic only. Click the link below for more details.
Example of drop-down text
When a topic is open, users will see a link with an image (also called a "drop-down hotspot"). This hotspot is the first paragraph (or a section of the first paragraph) that has been condensed. When you have clicked the hotspot above, the hidden content (e.g., this very paragraph) is displayed below the hotspot. When the hotspot is clicked again, the content becomes hidden once more.
Togglers
This Help file uses togglers. A toggler is a feature that lets the user "toggle" between hiding and showing a tagged piece of content (e.g., paragraph, image, table, list, etc). When you open the topic in the output, you may see an image with or without a link close to it (also called a "toggler hotspot"). When the hotspot is clicked, the hidden content is displayed. When the hotspot is clicked again, the content becomes hidden once more. The sections below show the main types of togglers used in this help.
Image toggler
Click the Image icon below to show or hide an image. If the image has any additional text, it will normally only be a title. However, there may occasionally be some explanatory text.
hotspot - Image icon + "Show me" or "Click me!" text depending on the Innovyze product you are using.
Example toggler
Click the Example image below to show or hide an example. This type of toggler is widely used throughout the Help to show some examples with the purpose of supporting the text.
hotspot - Example image
Text toggler
Click the Folder icon below to show or hide some text. This type of toggler is, for example, used to provide further information such as cause and advice as for validation messages.
Hotspot - Folder image + in the case of validation messages, the error message itself
Expanding Text
Expanding text is a feature that "scrunches up" content in a paragraph in a topic. Expanding text usually relates to a short paragraph or even a single sentence.
Click the icon at the end of this sentence to show additional paragraphs of text, possibly with
pictures or diagrams
Expand All/ Close All buttons
You will see an Expand All button (
) and a Close All button
(
) at the top of each page. Use these buttons to expand or close ALL the dropdown
and expanding sections within the topic.
The buttons cannot tell if you have expanded or closed everything using the individual icons.
