Inserting an Existing Topic into the Book

Existing topics can be added to a book using the Insert Existing Topic option, or by locating and dragging a topic from its folder into the Book's content pane. We'll look at the first option here.

Use the insert Existing Topic option if you don't know where a topic is located in the library. The Insert Existing Topic dialog box includes a search function for locating topics in the library, and insert them into the book at the chosen location. When you search for the topic you have the option of adding the first word from the topic's description, or using a keyword and a wildcard if you're unsure of the first word in the description. When you use wildcards use * to represent a combination of characters, including no characters, and use ? to represent any single character. For example, *Accessories would look for X1000 Accessories, X2001 Accessories, etc.

Before inserting a topic into the book's contents you need to select a parent topic, the inserted topic will be added as a child of the parent topic.

To Insert an Existing Topic into the Book:

1. Open the book in the Book Contents.
2. Choose on the Book Contents Toolbar to put the book into Edit Mode.
3. Select a parent node in the Book's contents. The inserted Topic is added as a child of the node.
4. Choose from the Book Contents Toolbar. The Insert Existing Topic dialog box is displayed.
5. Add the search criteria in the Search: field then press the ENTER key to begin searching the library. When the search is completed a list of topics matching the criteria is displayed.

   

6. Select a topic from the list to insert into the book contents.
7. Choose OK to add the topic to the book contents.
8. Save the changes to the book.