SAP Basis

Unit 4: Access to Help ADM100
The Supported Help Types
Figure 46: The Supported Help Types
The Installation Guide describes the different help types and their
individual properties in great detail. This lesson simply presents the fact
thatthehelptypeHtmlHelpFileisthedefaulthelptyperecommended
by SAP, since it has the most functions of any of the help type, a suitable
search function, and supports printing.
HtmlHelpFile
With this help type, the documents are stored in “Compiled HTML”
format (*.CHM). The files are made available using a file server and
are displayed with the HTML Help Viewer. “Compiled HTML”
is a format developed by Microsoft for storing HTML files in
compressed format. The storage space requirement for CHM files is
around a tenth of the requirement for uncompressed HTML files
and is comparable to the requirement for WinHelp files. Microsoft
introduced the HTML Help Viewer as a successor to WinHelp. It is
based on Microsoft Internet Explorer. This type of help can only be
used on Microsoft Windows 32 bit front end platforms. This type of
help provides a full text search for all documents (global search) or in
the documents of the current help file (local search), and it is possible
to print multiple documents concurrently.
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