The Tools Menu

HelpLogic includes a growing number of tools and utilities in the "Tools" toolbar menu. We'll be adding more features to this section in future releases.

Find and Replace

If you need to search and replace a word or phrase throughout your entire project, select "Find and Replace" from the Tools menu in the Main Project window. You can limit Find and Replace to only search your HTML Source Files, or you can enable Find and Replace to also include your Table of Contents (TOC) in your searches. You have options to perform case-sensitive searches and utilize Regular Expressions as well.

After performing a search, a results list will appear at the bottom of the "Find and Replace" window. Double-clicking on any of the listed HTML files or TOC topics will open them.

If you only need to search within a single HTML document, then open that document in the HelpLogic Code Editor and choose one of the "Find" options from the Code Editor's Tools menu. See the Editor Tools page for details.

Find and Replace's Regular Expressions engine supports a modified version of the PCRE library. For more information on PCRE-compatible expressions, please visit: http://www.pcre.org/. Not all possible Regular Expressions have been tested in HelpLogic's Find and Replace, so it is recommended to backup your HTML pages and TOC before performing Regular Expressions in Find and Replace. If you find any Regular Expressions bugs, please report them using our online support form: http://www.ebutterfly.com/helplogic/support.php.

Internet Search

Need to research a topic or find a code snippet online? Use the built-in Internet Search to search more than a dozen popular web sites. Just type in your keyword(s), select the site you want to search from the pulldown menu, and then click "Search". Your search results will be displayed in your default web browser. If you wish to save your current Internet search query, click the "Save Search URL" button in the Internet Search window and the URL query string will be loaded into a new Project Workshop URL bookmark window. Add a name to your new URL bookmark and click "Save" to save your new URL bookmark in the Project Workshop.

Page Templates

Selecting "Page Templates" from the "Tools" menu displays the Page Templates library where you can add, edit or delete templates. If you find yourself using the same page layout for many of your HTML help pages, then save yourself some time by storing the HTML layout as a Page Template. The next time you add a new HTML file to your source files folder, you can elect to save it with your custom Page Template embedded in it.

Choosing "Edit" will allow you to open the selected page template file in either the HelpLogic Editor or any other external code editor you have listed in HelpLogic.

HelpLogic's Page Templates currently work differently than what Dreamweaver users may expect. Once you add them to a new HTML source file, that's where the connection ends. If you later edit that page template, any HTML source files that use that page template will NOT be updated. We plan to evolve the Page Templates feature in a future HelpLogic release to offer additional functionality.