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A scaled-down version of this user guide project is now available for download.

http://downloads.datadynamics.com/ActiveReports6_UserGuide.zip

The PDF version of the file is also available.

http://downloads.datadynamics.com/AR6DesignerGuide.pdf

You can use Innovasys HelpStudio 3 to customize the help to your application, or you can use Adobe Acrobat to customize the included PDF build of the user guide. Or you can distribute the included CHM or PDF file as is for a quick solution. For information on customizing the user guide, see Customize End User Designer Help (Pro Edition).

To deploy end user designer help

1. Download the file at: http://downloads.datadynamics.com/ActiveReports6_UserGuide.zip
2. Open the zip file. In it you will find all of the help project files, as well as the AR6Designer.pdf and ActiveReports6.chm deliverables and the ActiveReports6.h file.
3. The ActiveReports6.h file contains context IDs mapped to all of the topics in the user guide. You can use this to provide context-sensitive help for your users.
   1. If you want to provide context-sensitive help, open ActiveReports6.h in notepad.
   2. Find the topic names that you want to associate with your application contexts and enter a context ID from the .h file into your application UI element's Help Context ID property for each topic.
   3. Build your application. When you run the application and give focus to one of the UI elements for which you specified a Help Context ID, clicking the F1 key opens the associated help topic.
4. Include the ActiveReports6.chm and ActiveReports6.h files in your deployment folder along with your executable.
5. You can put the AR6Designer.pdf file in any folder for deployment.