How do you do trip-pane CONTENT in Help

[Deborah Hemstreet <dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com>]

Hi All,

I once saw an amazing Help file that provided the following:

1. Traditional contents, index, search in left panel.

2. Tri pane content in the right panel. Which worked like this.
    The panes were tabbed and titled: How To, Concept, Example

3. When users searched for something, and clicked the link, the content 
pane would jump to the topic. If it was a how to, then the help jumped 
there. But if the How To had conceptual info and examples as well, the 
tabs for Concept and Examples lit up and the user could click those.

It was brilliant because the user had all the information they needed on 
that topic in one spot. They immediately knew there was important 
conceptual info behind the how to, and had examaples - all without 
searching for that individual item. I believe this was in SolidWorks Help.

Does anyone know how this can be done? Ideally, that is what I'd like to 
do... but in WebHelp or FlashHelp.

Thanks in advance,

Deborah
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