Nav 2017 - Where has the 'cside.chm' gone?

jensthomsen

Hi
Has the 'cside.chm' - the online help files for the developer environment - been removed in nav 2017? I'm not able to find it in the 'RoleTailoredClient' folder where it used to be in previous versions?

Kishorm

It's no longer included - you need to use online help (MSDN) which is kept up to date. Alternatively you can use the 2016 version instead as it has not changed much. This is not something that they have forgotten but is intentional - can't remember where I heard this.

jensthomsen

So no longer any F1-help inside the developer environment? If I type F1 inside Nav 2017 developer I get transferred to this general help-page:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/index

Not very usefull...As always: Google is my friend! But sometimes it's just faster to type F1 if you need some specific help to a topic.

Kishorm

Yep, that's what they said, you'd then have to manually find the appropriate help under Development or Technical Reference. As I mentioned above, they also said you could install the NAV 2016 help which may not be completely up-to-date but is an option.

mohana_cse06

Its released like this in NAV2017 by mistake. I read this statement somewhere. so they will fix it soon.

Kishorm

It sounds to me like it is intentional, see this link...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nav/2016/11/04/dynamics-nav-and-help-a-new-world/

Near the top it says...

With Dynamics NAV 2017, we have moved the developer and IT-pro content to a new location in MSDN:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/

This is the only location for the content, because we removed cside.chm from the development environment. As a result, it will be easy for you to get the latest version of the content because it’s online only.

mohana_cse06

I mean about opening general page while pressing F1 from any field.

jensthomsen

And that makes perfectly sense, but the help should be topic-sensitive from within the developer client.