# Help

## Introduction

This example illustrates the use of the help system online documentation.

## Running the example

To view the help example, launch a run-time workbench and open Help > Help Contents from the main menu and select the Online Help Sample from the list of books. The main topic will provide detailed information on how the help sample plugin was created.

## Details

This example illustrates the following tasks that need to be done in order to create a simple, proper help topics contribution:

- using the help toc extension point
- help documentation in doc.zip
- defining topics and navigation structure for help documents

The name of the plugin directory that contains the help examples is `org.eclipse.help.examples.ex1`.

See the documentation for the `org.eclipse.help.toc` extension point for more detail on how to contribute help content.