Comments on: Word document/PDF used as Help text

By: danthedane

danthedane — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:19:25 +0000

UPS – the slashes in my previous posting got lost in the editor…
Here it is again:

”C:Programmer/Microsoft Office/Office10/WINWORD.EXE”

DanF

By: danthedane

danthedane — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:16:40 +0000

From one of my older apps, I picked this for you.
First locate the Winword.exe pgm om your PC and replace my (danish) path to the program (see pgm below).
Secondly define some HELPID that can be pssed from your application pgm to target the ight documnt, and add code to the ‘….winword.exe’ statement.

PGM        PARM(&HELPID)                          
                                                  
DCL        VAR(&HELPID) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(7)        
DCL        VAR(&PGMPATH) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(64) +    
             VALUE('"C:ProgrammerMicrosoft +    
             OfficeOffice10WINWORD.EXE"')       
DCL        VAR(&CMD) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(128)          
                                                  
CHGVAR     VAR(&CMD) VALUE(&PGMPATH *BCAT &HELPID)
                                                  
STRPCO     PCTA(*NO)                              
MONMSG     MSGID(IWS4010)                         
                                                  
STRPCCMD PCCMD(&CMD) PAUSE(*YES)                  
                                                  
ENDPGM

Years ago I began using browsers as my disply-help-text media. I now even have all my apps help-texts created as pages in a Lotus Notes db that is accessible from the internet.
Thus I can add to help-texts with a snap when helpdesk gets questions over the phone from my customers.

best luck
DanF

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:03:59 +0000

The full path has to be expressed in the DOS 8.3 naming convention,…

Full naming is allowed. You just have to quote properly. But there are so many potential problems trying to do help text this way that path naming is one of the trivial problems.

Tom

By: jac

jac — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:03:04 +0000

Thanks JB i will try it and let you know.