# Help Menu **URL:** \ **Category:** macOS\ **Created:** [October 14, 2022, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/help-menu/72670 "2022-10-14T06:22:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sebastien\_REMY](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/sebastien_remy/32/1946_2.png) [@Sebastien\_REMY](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Sebastien_REMY)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/help-menu/72670/1 "2022-10-14T06:22:14Z")
Hello, I am finalizing my first app using Xojo. This is a small utility to send midi notes. I would like to know how to manage the help menu and what the search field of this menu points to. How to write a small help page for my application accessible from this help menu item? Thanks for your help ---
**Author:** ![Beatrix\_Willius](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/beatrix_willius/32/282_2.png) [@Beatrix\_Willius](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Beatrix_Willius)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/help-menu/72670/2 "2022-10-14T06:47:32Z")
Does anyone still use the macOS help? Your best options are to include the help as html files within the app bundle. Or you use a website as manual and point your users to the website. I’m using the latter. I have a website made with RapidWeaver for my manual at [https://manual.mothsoftware.com/](https://manual.mothsoftware.com/) . System.GoToUrl and that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Sebastien\_REMY](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/sebastien_remy/32/1946_2.png) [@Sebastien\_REMY](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Sebastien_REMY)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/help-menu/72670/3 "2022-10-14T07:24:11Z")
Does the search field works with your solution @Beatrix_Willius ? ---
**Author:** ![Beatrix\_Willius](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/beatrix_willius/32/282_2.png) [@Beatrix\_Willius](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Beatrix_Willius)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/help-menu/72670/4 "2022-10-14T07:26:58Z")
There is just a website which - of course - has a search. ---
**Author:** ![Sebastien\_REMY](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/sebastien_remy/32/1946_2.png) [@Sebastien\_REMY](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Sebastien_REMY)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 7:30am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/help-menu/72670/5 "2022-10-14T07:30:46Z")
I have already a link to the help page in the help menu. My question was about the search field menu items in the Help Menu. I know that a small part of user reads the documentation ^^ ---
**Author:** ![Beatrix\_Willius](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/beatrix_willius/32/282_2.png) [@Beatrix\_Willius](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Beatrix_Willius)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/help-menu/72670/6 "2022-10-14T07:53:11Z")
Sorry, that comes from macOS. It only searches the menu items. Please check the search in Safari or similar. It doesn’t do much. ---
**Author:** ![Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Emile_Schwarz)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/help-menu/72670/7 "2022-10-14T08:55:41Z")
In one of my projects, and because I forget how some features works, I added a local help reminder [a “i” graphic icon). When clicked, a window opens and explains that feature. I really love it. That feature is to convert dates from whatever (May 1st; 1st May; etc. replace ‘/’ or ‘.’ with ‘-’, etc.) to SQLDate in a ListBox Column. (not related to data base) But I may have added that to some other features… ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_Roemert](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/thomas_roemert/32/827_2.png) [@Thomas\_Roemert](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Thomas_Roemert)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/help-menu/72670/8 "2022-10-14T12:33:55Z")
> [@Sebastien\_REMY](#): > > I would like to know how to manage the help menu and what the search field of this menu points to. How to write a small help page for my application accessible from this help menu item? The search field in the Help menu searchs your menus and displays matching entries. You can write a Apple Help with a small app called “Help Crafter” available in the Mac App Store and include it in your app - I am using Sam Rowlands “AppWrapper” to include the AppleHelp files in my apps. ---
**Author:** ![Sebastien\_REMY](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/sebastien_remy/32/1946_2.png) [@Sebastien\_REMY](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Sebastien_REMY)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/help-menu/72670/9 "2022-10-14T13:13:07Z")
@Thomas_Roemert it’s look like a nice solution but 23€ for a free app with only 2 or 3 entry in the app documentation is too much money. Maybe for a further and more important project. Thanks for your suggestion ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Sweeney](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/mark_sweeney/32/3332_2.png) [@Mark\_Sweeney](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Mark_Sweeney)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/help-menu/72670/10 "2022-10-14T13:40:10Z")
They finally updated Help Crafter after four years, which has fixed a couple of annoying bugs. Adding keywords to search terms makes it even more useful for creating Help files. Online help isn’t much good if you’re in a place with no wi-fi.