Customized Help Link in OBIEE

Hello BI experts,
Please help me in achieving the requirement as below.
We need to create a link (as Help Link ) in the Answers page/screen which should actually link to a Word document . The word document helps users in selecting the criteria for a report . Please note that this is for Ad-hoc reporting. My observation is that we should convert the word document into XML format before uploading it. Please let me know how can we do this.
Thanks in advance.

To acheive this you need to play with the source code to insert a html code for creating link on answers screen,
If you login to answers
In criteria tab under columns you will see text ....click on column etc...At the end .you will find ? [help file] which has a location at
C:oracleBI\oc4j-bi\j2ee\home\applications\analytics\analytics\olh\L-en location
You need to change the source code and place you file as html format. in the above location....
I am not sure whether you guys have license to customize the source code of OBIEE....
Thanks
V

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