Creating an index

An index consists of a list of keywords. You build an index by adding keywords and linking them to the topics in your project.

HyperMaker ebooks show the index on the Navigation Pane on the Left, where the Index, Search, TOC and Favorites tabs are located.
Searching keywords in the Index is faster than performing a full text search using the Search Tab.

HyperMaker enables you to visually design the index. To do so open your publication and click the Index tab on the left bottom area.

If you add new pages, delete or rename pages, or edit the pages, the some keyword index will entries may become invalid.
If you have to modify your pages after building the keyword index, then use the Rebuild Index button to remove invalid keywords from the index and search in new pages for all keywords in the index.

On the top of the Index tab you will see the Index button bar which contains several buttons, whose functions are:

	The Add Key button will ask for a keyword and search for it in all HTML documents in the publication. If the keyword is found anywhere, it will be added to the index. Text case doesn't matter in keywords. HyperMaker will show on the bottom of the keyword page all pages linked to that keyword. Keywords can also be added directly from any HTML document previewed with the button (from Files Tab). Todo so select the text to be used as keyword, right-click to open a pop-up menu, and then select the Add New Keyword Topic from selected index menu command. Keywords located in HTML documents placed outside the Publication Main Folder (in an Additional Folder listed on the bottom of the Files Tab) cannot be used. The pages in the search exclusion list in Search Tab will not be used when searching for keywords.
	The Process Meta Keyword Tag will generate keywords base on the corresponding tags, if found in any HTML document. The format of a META tag might be as follows: `<meta name="Keywords" content="Keyword1, Keyword2">` You can include as many tags with keywords as you want in the HEAD section of your HTML pages. Each line can have a maximum length of 255 characters.
	The Properties button allows renaming the keyword as well as unlink files from that keyword. Any pages unlinked from a keyword, will become linked again after the button is pressed, unless they are in the no search list.
	Rebuild Index actualizes the index, checking for changes in the test of the pages.
	The Delete button removes the keyword(s) selected.
	The Trash button will clear the full keyword index.