deployhelp
Install, uninstall and manage the local Nelson help system and module help files.
📝Syntax
deployhelp('install')
deployhelp('install', verbose)
deployhelp('add', module_name, module_help_dir)
deployhelp('remove', module_name)
[status, message] = deployhelp('uninstall')
status = deployhelp('status')
[status, message] = deployhelp('refresh')
📥Input Arguments
Parameter Description
'install' Install the local help system (all modules, all languages). Optional second argument verbose (logical) controls verbosity; default is true.
module_name Name of the module to add or remove from the local help tree.
module_help_dir Directory containing the module's help archive(s).
verbose logical scalar (true/false). When provided to 'install' it controls whether install steps show verbose output.
📄Description

The function manages a local, versioned help directory under userdir()/Nelson/<version>/help/.

Actions:

install: creates and installs the local help system (calls docroot('.') and install locally). Use the optional verbose boolean to toggle output.

add: extracts per-language .nhz help archives found in module_help_dir/help/ into the versioned help/lang/<module_name> directories.

remove: removes the module help directory for each language.

refresh, uninstall, status: respectively refresh the help database, uninstall the local help system, or return whether the local help folder exists. Actions that can fail return [status, message].

🔗See Also
docdocroot
🕔Version History
Version Description
1.15.0 initial version
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