Adding hyperlinks in the documentation - html (beginner question)

[NonyNon]

Hello,

I've went through a few posts here and understood that generally any html function other than Bold will not work in the documentation. Is there another way I can add a link to my documentation in any way?

I've seen this question mark link on the bottom of every vi documentation (on a project I’m working on) but on every vi it takes me to the same address. Is it possible to change this per vi? If possible how do I do it?

This has troubled me for a while now, thanks in advance!

[Sam_Sharp · Accepted solution]

In the VI properties under documentation, change the 'help path' to your HTML file. This is per VI setting, so you can set a different file for each VI.

[NonyNon]

Easier then I thought, thanks.

Edit: Seems my work would be much faster if I could get the documentation part to recognise the rest of the html functions (because the alternative is to add over 100 html files to my file) Is there a way to do that?

[Hooovahh]

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@NonyNon wrote:

Seems my work would be much faster if I could get the documentation part to recognise the rest of the html functions (because the alternative is to add over 100 html files to my file) Is there a way to do that?

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Nope, for some reason NI choose to only implement the bold tags in the documentation of a VI.  There are several ideas on the idea exchange you can vote for if you want more functionality.

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Improve-text-editing-in-the-VI-Properties-Documentatio...

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Text-formatting-in-VI-description-dialog/idi-p/919318

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/VI-documentation-Upgrade/idi-p/1075843

Maybe to help you can set that HTML help information on each VI programatically using VI Server.

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361M-01/lvprop/vi_helpdocument_path/