Creating Page Level Help Screens

Hi there
I have been asked to include a link to page-level help in our EP implementation.
Now, I can find the property(s) that need to be set in order to get the link to appear, but where do I set the content for the particular page?
In the masthead, there is a hyperlink for help, which redirects the user to SDN, but I remember reading somewhere where that is defined, so I'm not too worried about updating that or getting rid of it completely.
The page level help needs to be page-related, ie. the help content that is displayed must depend on the page from which the link was clicked.
Is this possible?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sure no problem
First I created an EP implementation for help (You can do this with WebDynPro or EP your call)
Second you have to create an IVIEW from the portal administration tab, you can do if create IVIEW from par if you have it uploaded or create it from the imported WebDynPro Target up to you.
Second when you create the page you include your iview as expained above and under properties of the page (this means don't check the iview box when you look at properties) ensure it opens up in a new window. This will give you a pop up help menu that you programmed yourself.
I used EP because WebDynPro seemed to be slow. Basically my help pages where just links with CSS that pointed to another server (DMS server) that was open to http links to bring up help documents for our portal.
I hope this helps
Cheers,
Devlin

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<b>reward if usefull for ur req</b>
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