What is the best way to edit online help files?

TechWriter

Hi there,

I'm new to the Microsoft NAV world and will be writing the online help for my company's NAV product.

I've been going through the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Help, and have figured out how to use the HTML Help Workshop and Help Builder in order to add customized help but I'm undecided as to what application I should use to create and edit the .htm files.

I was trying to use RoboHelp 10 but RoboHelp automatically updates the TOC (Table of Contents) and Index files, which has made it impossible to use Help Builder. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if RoboHelp is not the best way to edit the .htm files, and organize the TOC.

The MS Dynamics NAV Help lists several HTML Editors, but I don't know how much I can trust the list since RoboHelp is listed but I haven't been able to get it to work.

Can anyone recommend a WYSIWYG HTML editor that will allow me to edit the content of the online files and ideally to organize the TOC, and that will also work with the NAV Help Builder.

Thanks.

Marije_Brummel

My advice is to contact Per Mogensen (Aka Mr. Mergetool).

He ships a free of change (for partners) tool that helps you create and maintain helpfiles.

www.mergetool.com

David_Singleton

Mark Brummel wrote:

My advice is to contact Per Mogensen (Aka Mr. Mergetool).

He ships a free of change (for partners) tool that helps you create and maintain helpfiles.

http://www.mergetool.com

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lvanvugt

TechWriter wrote:

Hi there,Can anyone recommend a WYSIWYG HTML editor that will allow me to edit the content of the online files and.

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2 - I never liked RoboHelp as it is doing things I don't want, nertheless it help you get the TOC; however, you can also edit the TOC file (i.e. the .hcc file) with notepad or so