ITopic interface

Help topic interface, contains methods to retrieve topic information

Members

The ITopic interface inherits from the IDispatch interface. ITopic also has these types of members:

The ITopic interface has these methods.

Method	Description
Category	Returns topic categories (if defined in the content)
ContentFilter	Returns the content filter values for the topic
ContentType	Returns this topic's content types (if defined in the content)
FetchContent	method FetchContent - returns a data stream containing the XHTML data for the topic

The ITopic interface has these properties.

Property	Access type	Description
Catalog	Read-only	Returns the catalog interface associated with the topic
Description	Read-only	Returns topic description
DisplayVersion	Read-only	Returns display version
Id	Read-only	Returns topic identifier
locale	Read-only	Returns locale
Package	Read-only	Returns the package that the topic resides in
ParentId	Read-only	Returns topic parent identifier. The value will be -1 if the topic is a root (no parent) topic
ParentTopicLocale	Read-only	Returns parent topic locale
ParentTopicVersion	Read-only	Returns parent topic version
TableOfContentsHasChildren	Read-only	For TableOfContents calls, returns true if the topic has children. It will not be relevant data for non-TOC calls.
TableOfContentsPosition	Read-only	Returns topics position in the table of contents
Title	Read-only	Returns topic title
TopicLocale	Read-only	Returns topic locale
TopicVersion	Read-only	Returns topic version
Url	Read-only	Returns topic url
Vendor	Read-only	Returns the vendor name for the topic


Minimum supported client	Windows 8 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2012 [desktop apps only]
IDL	Windows.Help.Runtime.idl