Generating HTML Documentation for VIs, Templates, and Objects

You can import HTML files into most word processing applications, and you can use HTML files to create compiled help files.

Complete the following steps to generate HTML documentation for a VI, template, or object.

  1. Open any VI, control, global variable, or template file and select File»Print to display the Print dialog box.
  2. In the Select VIs page of the Print dialog box, select the file or files from which to generate HTML documentation.
  3. Click the Next button to move to the Print contents page.
  4. Select the components you want to include in the documentation.
  5. Click the Next button to move to the Page setup page.
  6. Select the options to set the appearance of the documentation.
  7. Click the Next button to move to the Destination page.
  8. Select HTML file.
  9. Click the Next button to move to the HTML options page.
  10. Select the Image format, Color depth, and PNG compression or JPG quality for the images.
  11. Click the Save button to display a file dialog box. The dialog box prompts you to name the HTML and image files and select the directory where you want to save the files. The default name of any HTML documentation is the name of the VI with a .html extension.

You also can use the Print VI to HTML method to generate VI documentation in HTML format programmatically.