Help System

You can use the help system to supply Help documentation for the application and development workspaces. You can add new help content by adding correctly formatted HTML files to the help server. No compilation, rebuilding, or AOT deployments are necessary to add Help documentation. The following figure illustrates the architecture of the Microsoft Dynamics AX help system.



To better understand how the components in this figure work together, consider
the following example.

• An employee clicks the Help menu or presses F1 when viewing a
form in Microsoft Dynamics AX.

• The Microsoft Dynamics AX client determines which help topic
should be displayed. It requests that specific topic from the help
server.

• The help server locates the help topic and determines if there are any
labels to define for that topic. If so, the help server requests the
definitions of the labels from the Microsoft Dynamics AX
Application Object Server (AOS). 

For example, if a help topic contains the label @SYS11904. The help
sever will request the definition of this label from the AOS. Once the
AOS returns the definition, Customer group, the help server replaces all
instances of @SYS11904 with Customer group.

• The help server sends the help topic to the client, where it is
displayed in the help viewer. 

Regards,
Hossein Karimi