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title: HelpStudio & Document! X 2024.2 Release Notes
description: Discover the exciting new features and improvements in the latest release of HelpStudio 2024.2
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# HelpStudio & Document! X 2024.2 Release Notes

 Published by [HelpStudio Suite News](https://blog.contiem.com/helpstudio-suite-news/author/helpstudio-suite-news) on  Jul 29, 2025 1:56:57 AM

HelpStudio & Document! X 2024.2  has focussed on enhancing the search functionality that is embedded in the Browser Help output, along with a number of other quality improvements.

## Feature Improvements

### Web Help Search 

 

- The build time indexing of the document has been improved to allow for: 
    -  Better results when searching for phrases
    - Inclusion of code syntax and examples
    - Improvements for other character sets such as Kanji
- The search logic in the output has been overhauled. This provides: 
    -  More accurate results
    -  Full support of diacritic characters
    -  Full support for phrases – will find only exact phrase when term is enclosed by double quotes (“)
    -  Improved weighting of results
    -  Improved logic for AND / OR
    - Improved weighting algorithm with priority given to: 
          -  Search results in Topic titles.
          - Entire phrases
          - Exact matches
          - Frequency
- The presentation of Search results has been totally overhauled giving: 
    -  More traditional search engine style display
    - Displays the Topic Title
    - Displays excerpt of text with highlighted terms
    - Count of occurrences of search terms
    - Improved ordering of results based upon the enhanced weighting
    - Improved support for Dark Mode
    - Improvements to search results navigation
- When navigating to a search result the highlighting of found results in that page has been improved.: 
    - Highlight Search terms check box allows highlighting of found results to be switched on/off
    - Diacritics highlighting fixed
    - Support added to highlight whole phrase results
    - Improved support for dark mode
    - Search terms applied even if page was already opened

 

## Quality Improvements

**Improved the Template Update process**

Simplified the selection of templates with a bulk update option and fixed an issue where a failed template update would keep prompting when the application was opened.

**Added support for additional datatypes for Open API schema Parameters**

Displaying of Data Types has been enhanced when documenting an Open API schema

**Added support for additional Tags in XML Comment File generation**

Additional XML Tag Elements are now supported by the XML Comment Generation

**Read-Only Error Message When Adding New Topics to Source Control in TFS**

New topics can be added to a source controlled project and are automatically checked out and editable

**Null Reference Exception During Command Line Build**

Updated the Command Line application to handle content access.

**Improved Notifications for GIT operation failures**

Added additional handling for environmental or conflict based issues, notifying the user to remedy the issue with the repository

**Check box for Return Values In Content Files**

Correctly wired the check box against return values so it updates correctly when values are entered

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