Consolidating Cross Product Contextual Help

摘要

An approach is provided for consolidating cross product contextual help. The approach responds when a help request is received at a computer system from a user. The computer system has a number of installed software products. Software services that have been installed on the computer system by the software products are identified along with a number of relationships between the software products. The software services and relationships are retrieved from a registry. Help contents data are retrieved from the software products based on the identified software services. The approach generates a consolidated help contents from the help contents data retrieved from the software products with the generated consolidated including a topology based on the relationships between the software products. The approach presents the consolidated help contents with topology to the user.

主权项

1. A method, in an information handling system comprising one or more processors and a memory, of consolidating cross product contextual help, the method comprising:
responsive to receiving a help request at the information handling system with a plurality of software products installed thereon:
identifying, by one of the processors, a plurality of software services installed on the information handling system by the plurality of software products and a plurality of relationships between the plurality of software products, wherein the software services and relationships are retrieved from a registry stored on a memory of the information handling system ;based on the identified software services, retrieving, by one of the processors, help contents data from each of the plurality of software products;generating, by one of the processors, a consolidated help contents from the help contents data retrieved from the plurality of software products, wherein a topology is included with the generated consolidated help contents based on the relationships between the software products; andpresenting, by one of the processors, the consolidated help contents with topology to a user of the information handling system.