AsHelpTextifier

Processes B&R Help files and generates a folder structure of text files, mimicking the Table of Contents tree, that can be opened and searched (e.g. with VSCode)

Using the Textifier

NOTE: Running took about 16 hours to process AS4.12 Help on my Parallels Windows OS with all options activated. It will be a little faster with the default options. Feel free to give it a whirl, but don't expect it to be snappy.

Setup

• Install python, if you do not yet have it.
• Install the modules with pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Tip: Use virtual environments if you don't want to install the modules on your machine

Running Textifier

• Configure script options
  • Set Settings at the top of ASHelpTextifier.py and save
• cd to Repository root
• Run python .\ASHelpTextify.py
• When prompted, browse to the folder containing brhelpcontent.xml
  • e.g. C:\BrAutomation\AS411\Help-en\Data\
• Wait...
• When done, the textified files will be in newly created folder ./out/ASHelpTestYYMMDDHHMM/

Downloading pre-generated output

• Links to Pre-generated textifications of AS Help can be found in the GitHub release assets