Integrating a documentation/help engine with Omnis desktop app

[Mayada Al-Kishtini]

Hi David,
Very interesting!
 Thank you for sharing your solution. 
Today I tested Bas’s approach and it worked very smoothly, l’ll read about document 360 to understand this option and decide from there.

Best regards,
Mayada

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> On Nov 17, 2022, at 5:25 PM, David Blaymires <davidb at jobbag.com> wrote:
> 
> If it is of interest, the latest Help Pages solution that we moved to (noted by Bas below) is Document 360.  We’ve found it to be outstanding for building a help/knowledge base system. https://document360.com.
> 
> If you want to see how we have implemented it, go to https://help.jobbag.com.  We are still transitioning many of the old help pages some some don’t look as good as others but it has many cool features.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David Blaymires
> CEO : Instinct Systems : JobBag
> 
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> From: omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com> on behalf of malkishtini at gmail.com <malkishtini at gmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, 17 November 2022 at 12:18 am
> To: 'OmnisDev List - English' <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>
> Subject: RE: Integrating a documentation/help engine with Omnis desktop app
> Hi Bas.
> 
> Thank you so much for sharing your solution and for sharing the link; I'm
> sure I'll learn something from it that helps me in what I'm working on now.
> 
> Best regards,
> Mayada
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com> On Behalf Of
> Bastiaan Olij
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 7:09 AM
> To: omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com
> Subject: Re: Integrating a documentation/help engine with Omnis desktop app
> 
> Hey Mayada,
> 
> I'm a bit late to the party but I did a session at EurOmnis about replacing
> the build in HELP.LBS file that comes with Omnis and replacing it with your
> own. This is a bit old but the files are here:
> https://github.com/BastiaanOlij/EurOmnis/tree/master/2018/Help%20management
> 
> When you press F1 in runtime mode (not in dev mode) Omnis will sent
> information about the window and field that have focus to the help library
> and you can do with that what you want.
> 
> I opened up a window with an oBrowser component and constructed a URL to a
> Docuwiki server but you could direct it to any type of CMS system that
> specializes in editable help. Instinct Systems moved to another one but I
> can't remember which one that was, but Dokuwiki was nice and easy to setup
> and is free (provided you can host it somewhere).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bas
> 
>> On 11/11/2022 1:04 pm, malkishtini at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi $listers,
>> 
>> We are looking for a reliable/easy to use/edit documentation engine to
> integrate with our Omnis desktop app in Studio 10.22.
>> We are thinking to add a help support to each window in the system that
> users can easily access and edit.
>> 
>> Any suggestions/thoughts about a tool or an engine (free or with a
> reasonable cost) that we can install on a centralized server on the cloud?
>> I appreciate all your ideas and feedbacks.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Mayada Al-Kishtini
>> 
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