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Online help - Table of content not working [AX 2012]

If you created your own online help and created your own table of content. In certain cases where you have bullet points in your document, this is considered as special characters. This may corrupt the metatag in the htm file. See screenshot below the description metatag takes the first 300 characters to be indexed (to be displayed as result text when you search on it). This particular example ended with &#46 . You should delete that last part it should end without any special characters. Last note. There is an msdn article for troubleshooting online help. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg882305.aspx

How to create online help (for non-technical) [AX 2012]

This describes how to create custom Help documentation and how to publish that documentation to the Microsoft Dynamics AX Help server. The Help documentation you create has to work with both the Help server and viewer. The Help server is a centralized Web service that responds to requests for Help documentation. In addition, you put your custom Help documentation files on the Help server. The Help viewer is an application that is deployed with the Microsoft Dynamics AX client. The Help viewer displays documentation when you request Help from the application workspace. Walk through on publishing help files is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg882381.aspx Here is my short walk through: To add folders to the Help server Use Windows Explorer and open the Content folder of the Help server. The folder is typically found in the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\DynamicsAX6HelpServer\Content but can be changed during install. Right-click the Content folder, click New, and then click Folder...

Dynamics AX Help Online Search

This is an address to save for searching Dynamics AX Help on Microsoft site. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/websearch/websearchax.htm