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<h1 class="topictitle1">helpKey Properties File Names</h1>
<div><p>Names of helpKey properties files are arbitrary (as long as they end with
.properties). However, a context-sensitive help plug-in could contribute pairs
of helpKey properties files for several UI plug-ins, and the files would need to
have unique names, if they were located in the same directory.
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<div class="p">As a convention, helpKey properties file names should correspond with the UI
plug-in that they serve. For example:
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<p>To allow arbitrary names for helpKey properties files, and to abstract the names
of helpKey properties files from UI components, the DTP help-helper provides an
extension point (org.eclipse.datatools.help.helpKeyProperties). That extension
point allows any plug-in to declare helpKey properties file contributions for a
UI plug-in.
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