There may be times you need to attach a topic not to a control you can select, but to its parent or ancestor. Since the parent can be completely covered by child controls and thus unselectable, there is a special provision to do it in authoring mode.

1. Activate authoring mode using the method specified by the software developer. The authoring mode panel appears.
2. Click the Select control button .
3. Click the child control of the parent or ancestor control you would like to map a Help topic to.
4. Click the drop-down arrow in the Control combo box and select the parent or ancestor to map to.
   
5. Click the Attach topic to control button . The Select Help Topic dialog box appears and shows the Table of Contents tab and TOC from the source Help file.
6. Select the topic from the Table of Contents tab or select the context ID/Topic pairing on the Context IDs tab, and specify any desired events.
7. Click the Save button .
8. Close the mapping window and deliver the proper Help and .xml mapping file to the software developer.