About Help for Web Apps

The user assistance portal is designed so that users of any Dassault Systemès apps can access (and search) all guides from one location. For apps, this can be helpful in particular for administrative guides that are not context sensitive from the web apps. For the help buttons in web apps to work, you must either install the help and include it in the war file, or configure the help URL property for the system.

If you have a DS Passport, you can access the help on-line at https://www.3ds.com/support/documentation/users-guides/.

To include the help for web apps in the war file, the war utility asks for the location of the user assistance portal, and when it runs, it copies all the installed documentation to the staging area and then creates the war file. Because it includes all the guides, you should deploy before installing documentation for any native apps, since that will make the war file larger than necessary.