Call help file in a form

Hi!
I have a form where i have a button to call a help file. I've create my help file with RoboHelp and then generate it to Oracle Help. But now what i want to know is how can i call my help file? What's the function to call the file?
Thank and sorry for my bad english :-)

This is the easiest (IMHO) way to create help for your forms application:
1. Deploy your generated help in OC4J container (OC4J_Help using application-root /ohw/ for example
2. Write code like this in your KEY-HELP trigger
url := '/ohw/help/?topic='||:SYSTEM.TRIGGER_FORM;
WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT(url, target);
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