Using the custom help file

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Once set up, anyone who uses the profile and elements with the New Term stereotype you set up can use the F1 key to open the custom help file when and where it is possible. When you press F1, IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® checks if there is a custom help file for the New Term stereotype associate with the element.

Note: The GUI element must be applicable to the New Term stereotype for the Rational Rhapsody profile for your custom help file to work.

For example, if the Auto2009 profile has a New Term stereotype called Stereotype_Auto2009 and you add an element with this stereotype to a package called Default, when you open the Features window for one of these stereotypes (for example, stereotype_auto2009_0) and then you press F1, your custom help opens (assuming that you added the resource IDs for the tabs on this window to your help map file).

However, when you open the Features window for the package and you press F1, you open the main Rational Rhapsody help file because this package is not associated with the New Term stereotype call Stereotype_Auto2009.

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