topic Re: How to make script tool help use relative path? in Developers Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-make-script-tool-help-use-relative-path/m-p/507855#M3464 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>When you added the script to the toolbox, did you make it <A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#/Adding_a_script_tool/00150000001r000000/">use relative paths</A>?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:14:44 GMT DanPatterson_Retired 2015-03-16T18:14:44Z How to make script tool help use relative path? https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-make-script-tool-help-use-relative-path/m-p/507854#M3463 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>All,</P><P></P><P>Having a really knotty problem and I was wondering if anyone could confirm if this is a bug in 10.3 or I'm not doing it right?</P><P></P><P>I have created a script tool and an associated CHM help file. In my script tool properties I have ticked on under the general tab Store relative path names. I know this is working as my script is in a sub-folder. I have organized my folder such that my CHM file is in a sub folder called Help (not unreasonable!) but when ever I click on the Tool help button on the tool script interface it opens up a blank window and then the item description page in my internet browser.</P><P></P><P><IMG alt="Capture.PNG" class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/74686_Capture.PNG" style="height: auto;" /></P><P></P><P>I have tried:</P><OL><LI>Placing the CHM file in the same folder as the tbx file</LI><LI>syntax of \Help\myhelp.chm</LI><LI>syntax of ..\Help\myhelp.chm</LI><LI>syntax of .\myhelp.chm</LI><LI>syntax of ..\SCTTool\Help\myhelp.chm</LI></OL><P></P><P>Nothing works! So is the path to the CHM file absolute and the relative path name is ignored? This is on my c:\ drive and when I double click on the CHM file it opens as expected.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:04:00 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-make-script-tool-help-use-relative-path/m-p/507854#M3463 DuncanHornby 2015-03-16T18:04:00Z Re: How to make script tool help use relative path? https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-make-script-tool-help-use-relative-path/m-p/507855#M3464 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>When you added the script to the toolbox, did you make it <A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#/Adding_a_script_tool/00150000001r000000/">use relative paths</A>?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:14:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-make-script-tool-help-use-relative-path/m-p/507855#M3464 DanPatterson_Retired 2015-03-16T18:14:44Z Re: How to make script tool help use relative path? https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-make-script-tool-help-use-relative-path/m-p/507856#M3465 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes. As mentioned above "...<SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'helvetica neue', verdana, sans-serif;">In my script tool properties I have ticked on under the general tab Store relative path names"</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:22:37 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-make-script-tool-help-use-relative-path/m-p/507856#M3465 DuncanHornby 2015-03-16T18:22:37Z Re: How to make script tool help use relative path? https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-make-script-tool-help-use-relative-path/m-p/507857#M3466 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>OK it's ArcMap being ArcMap...</P><P></P><P>Out of pure frustration I closed ArcMap down, opened it up, went to the tool and navigated to the help file (CHM), this time it just worked...</P><P></P><P>To test it was relative I copied the entire folder structure to a new location, deleted the old one and it opened when I clicked on Tool Help.</P><P></P><P>aahaahahahaha!!!!! <IMG src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/angry.png" /></P><P></P><P>Note to self - 4 years later and I'm finding my own solutions!&nbsp;<IMG src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/happy.png" />&nbsp;- I used&nbsp;<SPAN style="background-color: #ffffff;">.\Help\myhelp.chm</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:07:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-make-script-tool-help-use-relative-path/m-p/507857#M3466 DuncanHornby 2015-03-16T20:07:31Z