Online Help Menu
- Last UpdatedNov 12, 2025
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Use the following to add the system Help menu with the specified display text to a bar menu:
!this.bar.add (‘Dtext’, ‘Help')
!this.bar.InsertAfter(‘window’, ‘<Dtext>’, ‘Help’)
When selected, this Help option displays a system-help pull-down menu that gives access to the application help system. The fields are described in the table below.
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You can access On Window help by pressing the F1 key while the form has keyboard focus, or by including a Help button in the form’s definition.
Note: By convention, the help menu should be the last one defined for the menu bar, which will ensure that it appears at the right-hand end of the menu bar.
Field
Description
Contents
This displays the Help window so that you can find the required topic from the hierarchical contents list.
Index
This displays the Help window with the Index tab selected, so that you can browse for the topic you want to read about from the alphabetically-arranged list. You can locate topics quickly by typing in the first few letters of their title.
Search
This displays the Help window with the Search tab at the front so that you can find all topics containing the keywords you specify.
About
To see the product version information.