Opening help

Opening the local help

How to display the local HTML-help (i.e., the user documentation) for Neuron Power Engineer:

  • In menu Help, select Help Contents.

Online help

An online help is provided under https://help.neuron-automation.eu. This online help contains the most current information on Neuron Power Engineer (e.g. known or fixed problems within the release notes).
Therefore, Neuron recommends you to regularly check the online help under https://help.neuron-automation.eu e.g. whether there are new release notes.

Displaying the local help for system blocks

How to display the local HTML-help for system blocks within Neuron Power Engineer:

  • by using the command Show Help within the project explorer

    1. Expand the object displayed in the project explorer.

    2. Open the context menu for the displayed sub-level item (= the created block).

    3. Select the command Show Help.

  • by using the F1-key in the appropriate editor

    • within the ST-editor: Position the text cursor on a call of a function or on a declaration of a function block and press the F1-key.
      In order to display the help for a block declared in the ST-code: Position the text cursor on the appropriate lines with the declaration (e.g. FUNCTION_BLOCK name1 and END_FUNCTION_BLOCK) and press the F1-key.

    • within the FBD-editor: Select the call of a function or of a function block and press the F1-key.
      In order to display the help for the block currently opened: Select none of the elements within the FBD-editor and press the F1-key.

Restriction

Displaying the local HTML-help is only support for system blocks of the folders Standard and System.

Displaying the local help for own blocks

See "Generating and opening external help for blocks".

Displaying specific help for GUI components

Depending on your Neuron Power Engineer configuration, it is possible to call a context-specific help for GUI elements, for instance, for a view or a selected object in the view. Contact your system integrator, whether your IDE variant supports such help calls.

The help for a GUI component is called/displayed as a local help for system blocks is. For instance, select the application navigator or an object in it so that the GUI element has the focus and press the F1-key.