Improve the LabVIEW Help Search Functionality

[Nathan_S]

For as long as I've been using LabVIEW, I've often turned to the LabVIEW Help file (which is a compiled HTML file) and found very little help.  I'll search for something simple like "For Loop" and receive 500 (literally, try it for yourself) possible topics, including the Cohen-Coon Autotuning Method, Control in NI-DAQmx, Limit Specification VI, and so on.  These have nothing to do with For Loops.

I'm proposing that the LabVIEW Help be turned into something that is ACTUALLY helpful.  I'm not sure about the best way to do this.  I think that it should still be portable and shouldn't require any Internet access to use (as lots of us cannot access the Internet on our development machines).  I would really enjoy a tool that would allow me to search for something like "For Loop" and receive like 5 topics that all have to do with using a For Loop in LabVIEW.

[Darren]

Done, the title is now updated, and you have my kudo. 🙂

[AristosQueue (NI)]

> Can you imagine the chaos we could cause

> if they let *us* change our own titles?! 

Yes. It leads to a process best described as "post the idea 'NI should give LV away for free', wait for lots of kudos to build up, then change title to 'NI should do <insert bad idea that I really want but no one else will kudos here>' ".  I don't have to imagine it... it was suggested as a "tactic" very early in the Idea Exchange.

[JÞB]

> Can you imagine the chaos we could cause

> if they let *us* change our own titles?! 

I don't have to imagine it... it was suggested as a "tactic"

Hey you blue-bars are the onse who started this cat farm!  And, you knew you were going to need to herd cats to get what you wanted.

The help search is in need of an upgrade.  Although, A fixed forums search might be better! Kudos

[JÞB]

> Can you imagine the chaos we could cause

> if they let *us* change our own titles?!