Custom Help Toolkit

Microsoft has published a GitHub repository (repo) that includes scripts and tools that can help you prepare context-sensitive Help for customized finance and operations solutions. This context-sensitive Help can be accessed from the in-product Help pane.

Tools in the toolkit

The Custom Help Toolkit is available at https://github.com/microsoft/dynamics365f-o-custom-help. The repo contains the following tools and the source code for those tools:

• The HtmlFromRepoGenerator tool

  For more information, see Custom Help Toolkit: The HtmlFromRepoGenerator tool.

• The ConvertHtmlToJson tool

  For more information, see Custom Help Toolkit: The ConvertHtmlToJson tool.

• The HtmlLocaleChanger tool

  For more information, see Custom Help Toolkit: The HtmlLocaleChanger tool.

• The Help Pane extension Microsoft Visual Studio project

  For more information, see Connect a custom Help website to the Help pane.

• Dynamics AX 2012 metadata scripts

  For more information, see Convert Dynamics AX custom Help for use in Dynamics 365.

Note

The first version of the toolkit is available as a release in the GitHub repo.

See also

Custom Help overview
Deploy custom Help to Azure
Connect a custom Help website to the Help pane
Language and locale descriptors in the product and in Help
Convert Dynamics AX custom Help for use in Dynamics 365

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