Creating an online help screen?

I am creating documentation for my company, and the ideal way to present it would be through an online help screen. When users are connected to the website, they would click a link, and a help screen would pop up.
I can make the various pages in Dreamweaver CS5, no problem there. There will be at least 40 or 50 pages when I'm done.
But I need to do more than simply present a bunch of pages. The help screen needs a table of contents. It needs to be searchable (so users can insert a word, and be taken to any pages that contain that word). And it would be great if it could include an index and/or a glossary.
HTML Help Workshop from Microsoft would have been the perfect program to create a compiled .CFM file. I made a test file with it, and it looks great, but apparently, it's no longer possible to access this kind of file over the web, at least not in Windows.
So, I'm wondering if it would be possible to create this in Dreamweaver. Are there any tutorials that address this specific application? Does anyone know of any templates or examples that I could see?
If at all possible, I'd like to do it entirely in Dreamweaver, rather than purchasing a license for Robohelp.

HTML Help Workshop from Microsoft would have been the perfect program to create a compiled .CFM file. I made a test file with it, and it looks great, but apparently, it's no longer possible to access this kind of file over the web, at least not in Windows.
It is possible as long as your server runs ColdFusion, and that can happen in either Windows or *nix.

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hi,
can any one guide me to create F4 help for a field in a selection screen in a report program,plz give me a sample code

hi,
Here are the following ways
1.with the help of match code objects we can create the F4 Functionality for Field.
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2. One more thing is we can do it with Search Help's also.
3. Even we can do it HELP Views also.
Help Views:
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All the tables included in a help view must be linked with foreign keys. Only foreign keys that have certain attributes can be used here. The first table to be inserted in the help view is called the primary table of the help view. The tables added to this primary table with foreign keys are called secondary tables.
The functionality of a help view has changed significantly between Release 3.0 and Release 4.0. In Release 3.0, a help view was automatically displayed for the input help (F4 help) for all the fields that were checked against the primary table of the help view. This is no longer the case in Release 4.0.
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Existing help views are automatically migrated to search helps when you upgrade to a release higher than 4.0.
A help view implements an outer join, i.e. all the contents of the primary table of the help view are always displayed. You therefore should not formulate a selection condition for fields in one of the secondary tables of the help view. If records of these secondary tables cannot be read as a result of this selection condition, the contents of the corresponding fields of the secondary table are displayed with initial value.
<REMOVED BY MODERATOR>
Edited by: Alvaro Tejada Galindo on Feb 15, 2008 3:15 PM

Creating a search help for a field in selection screen

Hi All,
There are 3 fields in the selection screen. They are
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Hi
i am sending you a sample code where i had implemented a search help
for my req you can understand very easyly and write for ur req
<b>reward if usefull for ur req</b>
TYPES : BEGIN OF ST_OBJID_SH,
         OTYPE TYPE HRP1000-OTYPE,
         OBJID TYPE HRP1000-OBJID,
        END OF ST_OBJID_SH.
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IF S_OBJID IS NOT INITIAL.
    SELECT OTYPE OBJID FROM HRP1000
                 INTO TABLE IT_OBJID_SH
                 WHERE OTYPE = 'D'.
IF SY-SUBRC EQ 0.
SEARCH HELP FOR QUALIFICATION.
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      EXPORTING
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        RETFIELD               = 'OBJID'
             PVALKEY                = ' '
       DYNPPROG               = SY-REPID
       DYNPNR                 = SY-DYNNR
       DYNPROFIELD            = 'S_OBJID'
             STEPL                  = 0
             WINDOW_TITLE           =
             VALUE                  = ' '
       VALUE_ORG              = 'S'
             MULTIPLE_CHOICE        = ' '
             DISPLAY                = ' '
             CALLBACK_PROGRAM       = ' '
             CALLBACK_FORM          = ' '
             MARK_TAB               =
           IMPORTING
             USER_RESET             =
      TABLES
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             FIELD_TAB              =
             RETURN_TAB             = RETURN_TAB
             DYNPFLD_MAPPING        =
           EXCEPTIONS
             PARAMETER_ERROR        = 1
             NO_VALUES_FOUND        = 2
             OTHERS                 = 3
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          MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
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ENDIF.

Creating online help based on external documentation

Hi there
I am in the process of writing a "handbook" for one application I have built. I will write it using MS Word, and it will have detailed information on how to use the app, including screenshots, arrows and other drawing objects.
I would like to add some online help to the app also, but instead of re-entering the same information manually in Apex (that would be limited to text only) I would like to re-use the document I will create in Word. Has anyone implemented anything like this?
One solution for this that I am considering is to break down the handbook file into a number of smaller files, one for each page, and upload them into Oracle as BLOBs (in a table with app_alias and page_id as PK). Then the help page would download and display these files (in some way, not sure how yet).
Ideally, the whole document should be uploaded as a BLOB and somehow the program should be able to extract only the bit that is relevant to the current page and display it.
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Thanks,
Luis

Hi
I don't think it is possible to know that (except if you ask the Apex dev team directly I suppose).
The solution I used was to create a Word document with the application help and export it as HTML. Then copied the HTML to a directory in the server and created a link in the app to open that HTML in a popup window.
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How to create an search help for standard Screen

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Can any one help me out ... How to create a search help for standard screen field.......
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Naveen...

Hi Naveen.
I would like to suggest a couple of references,
[SDN - Standard Reference for create a search help for own fields in selection screen |How to create a search help for my own fields in selection screen;
[SDN - Standard Reference for Attaching search help to standard screen|Attach search help to standard screen;
[SDN - Reference for want to add a field in standard search help screen|want to add a field in standard search help screen;
[SDN - Reference for Attaching a search help to a standard screen - Case 2 |attaching a search help to a standard screen;
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How to create a serach help

Hi Guys
Could you please explain me in detail the steps involved in
creating a dsearch help
Thanks in advance

1) Elementary search helps describe a search path. The elementary search help must define where the data of the hit list should be read from (selection method), how the exchange of values between the screen template and selection method is implemented (interface of the search help) and how the online input help should be defined (online behavior of the search help).
2) Collective search helps combine several elementary search helps. A collective search help thus can offer several alternative search paths.
3)An elementary search help defines the standard flow of an input help.
4) A collective search help combines several elementary search helps. The user can thus choose one of several alternative search paths with a collective search help.
5)A collective search help comprises several elementary search helps. It combines all the search paths that are meaningful for a field.
6)Both elementary search helps and other search helps can be included in a collective search help. If other collective search helps are contained in a collective search help, they are expanded to the level of the elementary search helps when the input help is called.
CREATION:
Go to SE11 Tcode
select search help
give the 'z' search help name and create
select the selection method ur table name eg : 'mara'
dialog module 'display value immediately'.
add the field whatever u want and lpos = 1 and spos = 1 and check import and export parameter.
where left position when displaying and spos = search position
and then save and activate ..
See the links:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cf/21ee38446011d189700000e8322d00/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cf/21ee45446011d189700000e8322d00/content.htm
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=3173469&messageID=2176485
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=3173469&messageID=3601619
pls go through this for search help creation
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/41/f6b237fec48c67e10000009b38f8cf/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cf/21ee2b446011d189700000e8322d00/content.htm
Search Help Exits:
Creating Elementary Search Helps
Procedure
In the initial screen of the ABAP Dictionary, select object class Search help, enter the name of the search help and choose Create.
A dialog box appears in which you must select the type of search help.
Select Elementary search help and choose .
The maintenance screen for elementary search helps appears.
Enter an explanatory text in the field Short text.
You can for example find the search help at a later time using this short text.
In the Definition tab page enter the selection method of the search help.
You can enter the name of a table or a view (database view, projection view or help view) here. If you enter a table that has a text table, the name of the text table is automatically entered in the corresponding field.
Using the input help (F4 help), select fields of the selection method as parameter in the Search help parameter area. Select the fields that should be used in the dialog box for value selection or in the hit list.
If the selection method is a table that has a text table, both the fields of the table and the fields of the text table are offered in the input help.
The data element of the parameter is automatically copied from the selection method. The data element defines the output attributes and the F1 help of the parameter in the hit list and in the dialog box for value selection.
You can assign the parameter another data element. To do so, select the Mod flag. The Data element field is now ready for input. Then select a data element with the input help (F4 help). Only data elements whose data type, length and number of decimal places is the same as those of the previous data element can be assigned.
This removes the link between the data element of the search help parameter and the data element of the selection method field having the same name. If you cancel the Mod flag, the data element of the assigned table field is used again.
Define the attributes of the search help parameters.
Select the IMP flag if it is an import parameter. Select the EXP flag if it is an export parameter.
You can define the dialog for the input help with the fields LPos, SPos and SDis. Enter the parameter position in the hit list in LPos. If you enter nothing or the value 0 here, the parameter is not displayed in the hit list.
Enter the parameter position in the dialog box for value selection in SPos. If you enter nothing or the value 0 here, the parameter is not displayed in the dialog box for value selection.
Set the SDis flag if the parameter should be a pure display field in the dialog box for value selection. The user is thus informed that the contents of the parameter restrict the value, but he cannot change this restriction. This makes sense for example when the parameter is an import parameter or if it has a default value.
You can assign the parameter a default value in the Default value field.
Select the dialog type of the search help.
The dialog type defines how the hit list is displayed in the input help.
Save your entries.
A dialog box appears in which you have to assign the search help a development class.
Choose .
Do not forget to link the search help to a screen field. The search help attachment is not part of the search help definition; it is part of the object definition to which the search help is attached.
Result
The search help is activated. You can find information about the activation flow in the activation log, which you can display with Utilities ® Activation log. If errors occurred during activation, the activation log is automatically displayed.
Other Options
Assign a hot key: If the search help is to be accessed with a hot key, you must enter a one-place ID in the Hot key field. All the elementary search helps contained in a collective search help should have different short cuts.
Assign a search help exit: In exceptions, you might have to change the standard flow defined by the search help with a search help exit. In this case enter the name of the search help exit in the corresponding field.
Test the search help: You can test the flow of an input help defined by the elementary search help with . A dialog box appears in which you can simulate the behavior of the search help under different conditions. You can obtain information about the options provided in this window with .
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/cf/21ee5f446011d189700000e8322d00/content.htm

Providing online Help for Flex-based applications

I have been asked to provide online Help for a Flex application. As I have never done this before, I have a few questions:
- What is the format for the Help topics?
- Are there control-type files (e.g., TOC, index, project file) that need to be created? If so, what is the format for these?
- Is the Help compiled? If so, which compiler is used?
- How is context-sensitive Help created?
I'd also like to know if there are any resources I could look at that covers these Help issues. Thanks.

Hi,
You can acheive the same by the addition of [USER-COMMAND fcode].
RADIOBUTTON GROUP group [USER-COMMAND fcode] - The addition USER-COMMAND can be used to assign a function code fcode to the first parameter in a radio button group. The function code fcode must be specified directly, and have a maximum length of 20 characters. When the user selects any radio button of the radio button group on the selection screen, the runtime environment triggers the event AT SELECTION-SCREEN and transfers the function code fcode to the component ucomm of the interface work area sscrfields.
So you code should be altered as
PARAMETERS: rb_appl RADIOBUTTON GROUP rad
                     USER-COMMAND radclick    "Addition which you have to make.
                     DEFAULT 'X',
            rb_pres RADIOBUTTON GROUP rad ,
            p_file   TYPE ibipparms-path.
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON VALUE-REQUEST FOR p_file.
IF rb_appl = 'X'.
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I am part of a team that is developing a pretty big and complicated system built with .irpt pages and MII applets, queries, displays and transactions.
Does MII offer a way to build a custom help screen, similar to Microsoft's HTML help? How have creators of other MII applications done their help screens? Are there any examples to look at?
Thanks in advance!

MII does not offer a special tool for creating help pages. You can use any tool for building dynamic web pages that you would also use to build your application, even external tools like Adobe Flex to create nice screens.
I once created a PDF User Guide which I linked into the User Navigation, so users can read it online or print it easily if needed. You may create help buttons that open small help pop ups.
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No Online-Help displayed

I have just newly installed RoboHelp X5 for .NET on my
Windows XP, SP2 PC with Opera 9 (default) and Internet Explorer 6
SP2.
When I click the first or second item in the "Help" menu of
RoboHelp, nothing happens
. I.e. it looks as if the IE was trying to do
something. But nothing is visible on the screen.
The same behavior I get when I try to test the
Context-Sensitive help of a tiny FlashHelp or WebHelp project.
Below I describe what I do, perhaps I'm missing something
important.
1. Install RoboHelp X5 Pro.Net
2. Start RoboHelp
3. Click the first item in the "Help" menu.
Results:
Just nothing happens. This behavior is true for ALL help that
seems to use a browser.
We have tried on several machines. Always the same nonsense.
All PCs except mine use IE as default browser.
4. Create any Help-Project that relies upon a browser (e.g.
WebHelp, FlashHelp). Just two topics. Project name in my case:
FlashHelp
5. Generate the project and press "View Result". The result
is displayed in the default browser (Opera 9 in my case). This is
(astonishingly) ok.
6. Create Map-Ids for Context-Sensitive Help for the
available topics in the project. Generate project.
7. Start "CSH-Test", choose the appropriate "FlashHelp.htm"
and map-id-file. Press "Show Help".
Result:
Nothing happens. Obviously the Internet Explorer is trying to
do something. But you don't see anything on the screen.
The same utterly disappointing result you get when you create
a small C# application (derived from the example installed with
RoboHelp).
By the way:
If I create a HTML-Help instead of a FlashHelp or WebHelp
project everything works as expected, even my own C# application.
For HTML-Help there are, however, much cheaper tools than RoboHelp.
We want to use FlashHelp.
Comment:
I suppose that all this misbehavior comes forth from the same
problem.
And as I can't open the online-help I cannot even try to
figure out what could be wrong
Thanks a lot for any useful hint.
Walter

Hi Walter,
it looks like you are reading RHs airplane help (this opens
up the help on their server rather than the local help). If you are
having trouble reading the help, click the Tools menu | Options,
select the General tab and select 'Use offline help'....that's a
start. Hopefully others can help you with the more dramatic issues
you are experiencing.
Kind Regards
Craig

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