To verify if the AB Suite online help is installed and to view the help, perform the following:
Open Agile Business Suite 7.0 Development Environment.
If you have installed Help Viewer on your machine, perform the following:
On the Help menu, point to Set Help Preference, and then select either of the following:
Launch in Browser – Select this option if you want to view help in information center.
Launch in Help Viewer – Select this option if you want to view help in help viewer.
The AB Suite online help appears in the Information Center or in the Microsoft Help Viewer depending on the preference you select. You can press F1 on the keyboard to view context specific information.
Notes:
The Set Help Preference option is visible only if you install Help Viewer.
Help Viewer is not installed by default when you install Visual Studio 2017. You must select this component when you install Visual Studio 2017 or install it later from the Visual Studio Installer. Refer to MSDN documentation for more information on installing Microsoft Help Viewer.
If you have not installed Help Viewer on your machine, perform the following:
On the Help menu, click View Help.
The AB Suite online help appears in the Information Center or in the Microsoft Help Viewer depending on the preference you select. You can press F1 on the keyboard to view context specific information.
Known Issues with Windows Server 2016
When Developer is installed on Windows Server 2016, help viewer displays HTML text as MIME Sniffing is disabled in the security settings of Internet Explorer, by default.
Workaround
To display Developer online help in the help viewer, perform the following after closing help viewer:
In Internet Explorer, click Internet Options on the Tools menu or select Tools button, and then select Internet options.
The Internet Options dialog box appears.
Select the Security tab and click Custom level....
In the Security Settings - Internet Zone dialog box, select Enable for Enable MIME Sniffing in Miscellaneous section.
Click OK to close Security Settings - Internet Zone dialog box.
Click OK to close Internet Options dialog box.
Open help viewer to check if help appears.
If the following warning appears, turn off the IE enhanced security configuration:
Content from the website listed below is being blocked by the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration.
https://docs.microsoft.com
To turn off the IE enhanced security configuration, perform the following:
Open Server Manager.
In the left pane, select Local Server.
The right pane displays the IE Enhanced Security Configuration option. By default this option is set to On.
Click On.
The Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration windows appears.
Select Off under Administrators.
Select Off under Users.
Click OK.
When you view the AB Suite online help in the Information center, an Application Error appears.
Workaround
If the Application Error appears, you must add the Product Support Site to Trusted sites in the Internet security settings of the Internet Explorer.
To add the Product Support Site to Trusted site, perform the following:
Open Internet Options.
On the Security tab, select Trusted sites, and then click Sites.
The Trusted sites window appears.
In the Add this website to the zone box, enter the following Product Support Site link:
Click Add, and then click Close.
Click OK.