User Guide

192 Chapter 13 Extending the Help System
Introduction
Like the product, the Help system is fully extensible. You can add documents to the
Help system by dragging and dropping them into the Help folder, either from the
Files tab or Windows Explorer.
Help document files are generally in HTML, but you can include text files. The Help
browser will use the filename as the title. You can also create a link from within an
HTML file to files with TXT, DTD, and PDF extensions if you use Internet Explorer as
the internal browser. You can view web graphics files (GIF, JPG, PNG) in Help files.
This extensibility enables you to do the following:
• Write and install your own custom Help files
• Download documents from the web and add them to the Help system
• Edit existing Help topics
• Distribute Help files; this can be particularly helpful for a development team
Documents are not visible in the Help tree-only folders are. Therefore you must place
files in an existing folder or a new Help folder.