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1. Purpose
When you deliver an application, the job is not really complete if it is not shipped with a help system.
Sometimes, for small projects, the budget allowed does not take into account the help system. (talking about buying a tiers robot help maker solution and formation that comes with...). This is a solution to get an Oracle Forms contextual html help system that does not cost anything. The help system contents only html pages that could be build with a simple html editor. The simple mechanism is provided with html bookmarks inside. This system provide the following benefits: No third-part soft to buy No special formation The conception/realisation phase could be done by another team - what about the communication/artistical department ? (its so modern !) The html system allows to use internal and external navigation mechanisms like bookmarks and hyperlinks.
3. How to call the html page and jump to the correct bookmark ?
You can assign some form-level key triggers that indicate the target topic, then use the Web.Show_Document() Forms web built-in to call the html page with the corresponding bookmark.
-- dialog name
-- item bookmark
-- block bookmark
-- tab bookmark
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tab canvas bookmark name is the tab canvas name property block bookmark name is the block name property item bookmark name is build with the block name and the item name, separated with the _ (underscore) character.
Place the cursor anywhere you want and call the help. (Ctrl+Shift+F1 to get the current item help)
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f.degrelle@free.fr - http://fdegrelle.over-blog.com/
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