Filtering the Navigation view

You can learn how to filter the navigation view after reading this topic.

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In some documentation sets, topics might be tagged for particular criteria, for example, when a topic is only associated with a specific operating system. Under such circumstance, you can set filters to display only the topics you want in the Navigation view.

You can set filter conditions by performing the following steps:

  1. Click Filter (filter) on the toolbar. You will see SetFilterwindow.
  2. Click Expand (Expand icon), and select the filtering options that match your criteria.
  3. Click OK. The Navigation view refreshes and displays the topics that match your selected filter settings. The Filter button is highlighted to remind you that filter conditions are set.
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Notes:
  • If the documentation provider has turned off the filtering function for the help system, the Filter icon (filter) is not available.
  • Any filter that you set only affects the display of topics in the Navigation view and the actions like the quick print and quick search that you can take in the Navigation view. The filters are not applied to any other views, such as Index views, Search Results view, or Bookmarks views.
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