Links in Context Sensitive Help to help files or html files

[Dave_Thomson]

  We're working on adding considerably more help and documantation to one of our commercial products written in LabVIEW.  It would be great to be able to link directly to specific topics in the help documentation from the context sensitive help window.  This is possible for VI help, but not for controls and indicators.  The same suggestion was made in the forums.  This would greatly facilitate help documentation, since the context sensitive help window mechanism requires very little programming and is already available.  Currently, one can add menu items or buttons that jump to any specific place in a help file, but that requires event cases for every instance.  Populating the context-sensitive help with relevant text and links could be done in a fairly automated way with some LV tools using VI Server.

DaveT

[Darren]

Any idea that has received less than 4 kudos within 4 years after posting will be automatically declined.

[X.]

What about if I gave it a kudo now, considering that I had never seen it before, or overlooked it?

[AristosQueue (NI)]

It would stay closed.

[X.]

Consider this a virtual kudo to the idea.

[parthabe]

"What about if I gave it a kudo now, considering that I had never seen it before, or overlooked it?"

A declined idea cannot receive any kudos; ie, you cannot kudo a declined idea! 🙂

[X.]

Which is why I gave it a vkudo.

The advantage of which is that you can give several of them to an idea:

[X.]

As a matter of fact, here is my contribution to a revamping of the kudo system:

5 kudos: 

10 kudos: