Add my own help topic

pvar

Is there a way to add customized help on the 'Help' button of a report or for the F1 key? Thanks in advance for any help.

Waldo

You mean your own online help on your own customizations.

Yes there is a way, but not easy!
Just open the 4.0 TOOLS CD and look for the Online Help Toolkit (not sure of the exact name). There is a PDF that guides you through the process.

pvar

I couldn't find anything like that for the version(3.6) we are using.

Savatage

Have you tried using company notes?

See "Company Notes" in help for more info on the activating & setup

Company Notes

Navision Attain contains a Company Notes feature. This feature allows you to write notes that are related to individual topics in the online Help.

You can only create one note for each Help topic, but the note can be as long as it needs to be. When a note has been written for a topic, it will be displayed at the top of that topic.

The Company Notes feature can serve many purposes. A note can explain company policy regarding a feature that is described in a Help topic. A note can explain company-specific procedures for the step-by-step completion of certain tasks that are related to a Help topic. The notes could also simply list tips and tricks for using the feature described in the Help topics.

Note
If you print a Help topic that contains a company note, the company note will also be printed. However, if you print a book of Help topics that contains some company notes, the company notes are not be printed.

Related Topics
Writing Company Notes
Activating Company Notes
Setting Up Access Rights to Company Notes

Another place that notes can be useful is using the ToolTip property of a field - When you "mouse over" the text is displayed.

Here's a pic that shows when you hit F1 a choice of writing notes appears
http://www.geocities.com/navision_attai ... ooltip.JPG

it's just coincedence that the F1 help showing is about tooltips

Luc_VanDyck

Savatage wrote:

Have you tried using company notes?

Keep in mind that the Company Notes feature has been discontinued in NAV 5.0.

Savatage

pvar wrote:

I couldn't find anything like that for the version(3.6) we are using.

8) 8) 8)

I thought that adding notes would be useful - But I find them rarely accessed. I guess for new employees it's helpful.

Luc Van Dyck wrote:

Keep in mind that the Company Notes feature has been discontinued in NAV 5.0.

Probably notes entered for 3.6 would be pretty useless in 5.0 anyway.