Create Help System and Fphelp Builder For Sharepoint Designer Software for Windows

Help Development Studio
$94.95 - Divcom Software

All modern software applications, no matter how large or small, need to have clear, concise, well-structured, and easily navigated Help systems. Generating such a system is often considered to be a difficult task, however, creating a help file can be as easy as writing a document in a word processor. All you need to do is simply select the most appropriate help authoring program for the job!
Help Development Studio is a popular help authoring tool, designed to create WinHelp (.HLP), HTML Help (.CHM), and Web Help (.HTML) files from the same source. This is a full-featured, stand-alone, complete help authoring tool, which includes all that's necessary for the quick and easy creation of high quality help documentation for your software application. There is NO need to know any of the technical aspects of creating help files, working with the help compiler, or editing the help topic source code in RTF or HTML.
Help Development Studio is the only help authoring tool to offer such power combined with simplicity of usage. There is also no need to use a variety of tools from different programs while working on a help file because Help Development Studio is a fully integrated environment. All the inbuilt tools, from the text processor to the Contents and Index editors, interact with each other to allow the automation of various actions. In other words, Help Development Studio allows you to write help topics, create the Table of Contents and Index, and use any WinHelp- or HTML Help-specific objects and features.
The great features included in Help Development Studio, as well as its easy-to-use interface and affordable price, is the reason why the program continues to gain more and more popularity among independent developers, software development companies, technical writers, and help authoring professionals.
If you require a quality tool to create help files for your applications, give Help Development Studio a try! Download your copy now and get a FREE 30-day trial!

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Helptrix
$48 - InterSoft, a.s.

Helptrix is a help authoring system for creating professional help and manuals in several formats from a single source. Start publishing your manuals as PDF, HTML Help or as HTML with a single click! Helptrix provides a tool for translating help or manuals to additional languages and maintaining multi-language help systems. With Helptrix you only focus on the content you are writing. You can set the formatting rules and appearance anytime. When producing output, chapters and topics are numbered, table of content with page numbers is created, figures and tables are numbered, description for links are created. All of this and more is in proper language and is done automatically for you. Context sensitive help is present in HTML Help output and with Helptrix also in browser based output in HTML format! Really easy, fully graphical assigning context help IDs from your application to topics in your help system. Helptrix is based on XML technology. All help content is stored in plain XML files, so it can be reused by another applications or created by another application from scratch as well. DocBook standard is supported, which means possibility of adding more output formats due to your needs. Take advantage of productivity and collaboration tools. One-click backup of your project directly to ZIP file or export your projects into ZIP archive and send it to all your translators via e-mail. When translated projects are back, import languages directly from ZIP file.

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fpHelp Builder for SharePoint Designer
$11.95 - OLSOFT

Authors can use fpHelp BuilderSP to create online help for a software application or content for a multimedia title or web site. As an information delivery system, HTML Help is suited for a wide range of applications, including training guides, interactive books and electronic newsletters, as well as help for software applications.

Help-authoring tools from Microsoft do not provide easy and comfortable interface for creating and editing HTML files or, managing content navigation structure. Fortunately, there are more suitable and powerful utilities such as Microsoft® SharePoint Designer and fpHelp BuilderSP. These programs not only allow you to design HTML pages and navigation structures of web sites, but also apply themes, manage links, receive reports, etc. In addition, the main advantage of this solution is that the user does not need to learn new software but can use the already familiar one.

fpHelp BuilderSP is a very simple and powerful Microsoft SharePoint Designer add-in that allows the conversion of a web site to a Microsoft HTML Help file (CHM file). The ability to work with SharePoint Designer is enough to construct the Help file from any web site.

Once your web site is complete, you can compile it to create the final compressed help file (CHM file). As a help author, you manage the locations of your topic, contents, index, and other files. You can also modify the web site to match the design of your help system or can make other changes depending on the size and complexity of your system.

Instead of creating the traditional Help files you can convert any web site into a single compressed help (.chm) file which is the help standard for Microsoft Windows. After that you can distribute your sites as single units which could be manuals, Helps, guides, readme files, e-books, etc..

The main advantage of the fpHelp BuilderSP is its simplicity and usability: in a few mouse clicks you will receive the CHM file from your SharePoint web site.

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DC Help Authority
$19 - EgyFirst Software, inc.

DC Help Authority is the only program that lets you create online help files from any point in your program. It helps you write multiple help topics, assign them to different areas, and link to them from anywhere, down to the smallest grid and column. With DC Help Authority, you can give your application a unique edge by making it more comprehensive, intuitive, and user-friendly. Instead of loading one large help file, DC Help Authority divides it into separate topics that describe each state, situation, or feature of your program. Each topic is linked to the corresponding code, so that accessing Help will lead to the help file linked to that area - much like Microsoft's WinHelp. This way, your users won't have to search keywords or scroll through pages of text. DC Help Authority runs on all COM-based applications such as Borland C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic C++. It uses a simple, easy-to-remember syntax, so your help code only needs a few lines of text and works with major programming languages. The Configuration Utility also allows you to determine which languages can be used with DC Help Authority. In the Help Authority system, the sensitive help feature can be triggered by the F12 key. For example, you can create and define four fields in a table, label it ?Help,? and paste it onto your project code. The fields Tag, Id, Description, and Contents can be defined accordingly (text or memo) and assigned specific lengths. You do not need to be an advanced programmer in order to install and fully use Help Authority. Its setup program automatically registers the DC_HelpAuthority10.dll file on your system. To integrate it into your project, simply select 'add reference' from the project menu. Click the 'browse' button to locate These DLL 1- your DC_HelpAuthority10.DLL 2- AxInterop.MSDataGridLib.dll 3- Interop.MSDataGridLib.dll 4- adodb.dll which all of them by default are located in c:windowssystem32.

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fpHelp Builder
$11.95 - OLSOFT

Authors can use fpHelp Builder to create online help file for a software application or content for a multimedia title or web site. As an information delivery system, HTML Help is suited for a wide range of applications, including training guides, interactive books and electronic newsletters, as well as help for software applications.

Help-authoring tools from Microsoft do not provide easy and comfortable interface for creating and editing HTML files or managing content navigation structure. Fortunately, there are more suitable and powerful utilities such as Microsoft® FrontPage and fpHelp Builder. These programs not only allow you to design HTML pages and navigation structures of web sites, but also apply themes, manage links, receive reports, etc. In addition, the main advantage of this solution is that the user doesn't need to learn new software, but can use the already familiar one.

The fpHelp Builder is a very simple and powerful Microsoft FrontPage add-in that allows the conversion of a web site to a Microsoft HTML Help file (CHM file). The ability to work with FrontPage is enough to construct the Help file from any web site.

Once your web site is complete, you can compile it to create the final compressed help file (CHM file). As a help author, you manage the locations of your topic, contents, index, and other files. You can also modify the web site to match the design of your help system or can make other changes depending on the size and complexity of your system.

Instead of creating the traditional Help files you can convert any web site into a single compressed help (.chm) file which is the help standard for Microsoft Windows. After that you can distribute your sites as single units which could be manuals, Helps, guides, readme files, e-books, etc..

The main advantage of the fpHelp Builder is its simplicity and usability: in a few mouse clicks you will receive the CHM file from your FrontPage web site.

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HelpStudio
$449 - Innovasys

HelpStudio provides you with an effortless way to create great help systems, which means that anyone who can use a word processor or HTML editor will be comfortable authoring help with HelpStudio. HelpStudio has been carefully designed to maximize your productivity whilst not requiring any knowledge of the technical aspects of help file compilation. You get to concentrate on pure content creation, saving time and money on every project.
Find and Replace, Spell check and Hyperlink verification can be run on the entire project, ensuring that your help systems need never ship with spelling errors or broken links. Build flags (conditional content) can be used to mark content, files or table of contents nodes in order to create multiple versions of a help system (perhaps a 'Lite' and a 'Professional' version) from the same project.
The features don't stop there. Additional tools include an image editor, integrated screen capture, a unique user interface screenshot markup tool, a popup help designer and help context id mapping Add-in for Visual Basic, integrated task management, a customizable content helper library (for automating the creation of common help content) all add up to the only Help Authoring toolset you will ever need.

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