Online Help for Discoverer Applications

Our company is developing an application with Discoverer. Do you know if Discoverer readily lets me link customized online context-sensitive help to it? And if so, in general, how?
Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the insight. I haven't read about RH8 so wasn't aware of that difference. No, I haven't tried the demo yet. I guess that would be the logical next step. I've been trying to get to the STC web site to download the PDF file of the presentation, but can't get the web site to open. Oh well. Thanks again.
Regards, Fred W. Brown
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InnovaSystems International, LLC
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Thanks for the insight. I haven't read about RH8 so wasn't aware of that difference. No, I haven't tried the demo yet. I guess that would be the logical next step. I've been trying to get to the STC web site to download the PDF file of the presentation, but can't get the web site to open. Oh well. Thanks again.
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