Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Web Development Guide

Application help

By default, the Help menu in Web applications contains two selections: Help Topics and Help About. Help Topics invokes ..\dhtml\ryhelp.r. Help About invokes ..\dhtml\ryabout.r.

Figure 5–2 shows the default help dialog box displayed when you select either Help Topics or Help About from your application. As you can see, the content is general system information.

Figure 5–2: Default help topic

To create help that is more appropriate to your Web application:

Copy ryhelp.html and ryabout.html from install_dir\src\dynamics\ry\dhtml\ to install_dir\tty\dynamics\ry\dhtml\ryhelp.html.

These files are templates for your application help. You can also start with an empty file and create your help from scratch.

Edit ryhelp.html and ryabout.html in a Text editor or an HTML editor and save your files.

If you started with an empty file rather than the templates, you must use the filenames ryhelp.html and ryabout.html when you save. Also, be sure you save your files in install_dir\tty\dynamics\ry\dhtml\.

Open WebSpeed WebTools.

WebSpeed WebTools are a browser-based set of application development and management tools. For more information, see OpenEdge Getting Started: WebSpeed Essentials .

Select File Tools from the Tools menu.
Navigate to the directory that contains your ryhelp.html and ryabout.html source files.
Select and compile your help files.

A compile icon is located on a toolbar at the top of the File Tools page.

Compilation creates the r-code files, ryhelp.r and ryabout.r, which will be invoked from the Help menu.