I want to convert a set of documentation into a Notes Database, so that it looks like the Lotus Help-databases.Is this possible?
Subject: Generate helpfiles
There is a sample Helpfile template in the Sandbox, with instructions on usage.
Stephen Lister
Subject: RE: Generate helpfiles
Thank you for the response. I think I can you this samples in de future, but my question was not about helpfiles.I want to create a Notes database from a hard-copy manual (so a portfolio with paper documents in it) and let it look like a help-database.
Sorry for the confusion.
Koos
Subject: RE: Generate helpfiles
You could do it, but it would basically mean setting up an appropriate database from the sample template, and then using an agent to import the documentation files into separate documents and set the appropriate fields so they would show up in the Notes database the way you would want. I have helped a customer do this, but mostly only because they needed greater help with formatting and used our Midas Rich Text LSX for the importing and formatting, plus parsing some information from the document files to determine the fields. If you don’t need those sorts of things, a regular LotusScript agent should be fine.
Subject: RE: Generate helpfiles
Thank you for the response.I think that I can use these samplefiles in the future.
But for now, I want to create a Notes database from a portfolio with documents, so a paper map with paper documents. And it have to look as a notes helpdatabase.
Sorry for the confusion.
Koos
Subject: Generate helpfiles
If you write NotesHelp in the Categories field in the design tab of the database properties, right under List in Database Catalog, your database will behave like Notes Help dbs and will open in a new window with only the Back and Forward arrows displaying.
Beware, AFAIK the design change can not be reverted to a normal DB.
Regards
Paul