HelpStudio & Document! X 2024.2 Release Notes

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