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Adding New Help Topics to Studio

Ever wished you had easy access to Help on non-CF topics such as JavaScript, SQL, and DHTML? Did you know you could easily add such new Help topics to Studio? In this month's Journeyman ColdFusion, I'll show you how easy it is. I'll also point out some existing references you can use to easily extend Studio this way.

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charles arehart commented on the 12 Jul 2002

The DevGuru site mentioned in this article has changed how it offers the HTML help files discussed. On July 17 2002, you will find an option to purchase the PDF version of the documentation. After purchasing that, you can email them to request the HTML version. If demand is sufficient, they may again offer the HTML files directly, but experience was showing more people interested in the PDF version.

Kola Oyedeji commented on the 6 Apr 2002

Just wanted to say that you article on adding help topics to studion is excellent, it gets straight to the point and illustrates how easy it is to setup. I was aware of this feature but didnt realize how easy it was to implement. I've now impressed my boss by placing our documentation under the help folder in html so that developers can quickly refer to it!

Thanks

One thing though, in order for my help folders to show up they *do* have to be added to booktree.xml (i'm using version 4.5.2) I dont know if its just my system or this is a recent change.I made sure that the page had a title and the folder name was correct. As soon as i added it in the xml file and refreshed it it appeared as soon as i removed it and refreshed it disapeared.

KOla

Charles Arehart commented on the 30 Jan 2002

A reader, Michael Mongeau of Sterling Mass, wrote: "One source for CF Studio-ready documentation is the OpenWDDX SDK. The entire developer kit documentation can be integrated into Studio. Download it from [visit link]"

For those interested, you'll find that the instructions for how to do that are in the very help files of the SDK itself, in the first chapter. Here's the key point:

"Just unpack the SDK .zip archive into Studio/HomeSite's Help directory, then click the Help icon in the Resource Tab. A new "book" labeled Wddx SDK will appear. (You may have to hit F5 once to refresh the display.)"

Once you've done that (or if you already had the SDK installed and can view the aforementioned help page), it also tells you how to implement a WDDX toolbar and additions to the expression builder. These are still further powerful extension capabilities in Studio, and it's great that the WDDX developers thought to create and package these extensions for WDDX users.

And thanks, Michael, for pointing this out to me.

/charlie

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