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This is a major reworking of SAM's Help system to migrate from proprietary Help & Manual to open source Sphinx documentation.

For high-level build instructions for Windows, see https://github.com/NatLabRockies/SAM/wiki/Windows-Build-Instructions#9-build-help-optional (also on Mac and Linux build instructions).

For detailed build instructions and information, see https://github.com/NatLabRockies/SAM/blob/help-to-sphinx/README.md.

Fixes #2110

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Build from Develop branches of SSC, WEX, LK and SAM-private.

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None.

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  • requires help revision and I added that label
  • adds, removes, modifies, or deletes variables in existing compute modules
  • adds a new compute module
  • changes defaults
  • [ X ] I've tagged this PR to a milestone

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Initial implementation
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* Use native web browser to display Help
* Use `wxHtmlWindow` to display version information regardless of platform
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Merge branch 'develop' into help-about
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Move HelpWin to main.cpp
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Updates for macOS tests
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Restore SAM icon to help window
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Clean up code for removed Help window buttons
15f3466
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Remove unused webview references
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Help source files
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* Move old files from `doc` folder to `SAM-documentation` repo. These are developer notes on old issues before we had the SAM Documentation repo.
* Add new .rst source files for Sphinx-generated Help to `doc` folder.
* Delete old HTML help files generated by Help & Manual from `runtime` folder.
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Delete commented code
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Remove commented code
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Merge branch 'help-about' into help-to-sphinx
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New Help IDs for Sphinx-generated help
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Help ID is path to HTML file with no extension <folder>/<filename>. For example Help ID "battery-storage/battery_dispatch_fom" points to battery_dispatch_fom.html in "/help/html/battery-storage" folder.
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Fix source files to be consistent with updated Help IDs
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Add documentation for help generation instructions and revision log
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Update Help instructions and configuration
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Restore F1 key for Help in event table
c53d4a1
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Help IDs for new PV UI input pages
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Update build instructions
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Initial Help revisions for PV UI redesign
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Fix broken URLs in Help
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Help revisions for PV UI redesign
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Merge branch 'develop' into help-to-sphinx
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Help updates
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Fix list alignment in Help
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Merge branch 'develop' into help-to-sphinx
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Add note about Help on Mac
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brtietz commented Feb 9, 2026 •
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Edit: I was able to debug the issue I posted previously. The path sent to window.cpp is:
file:///C:\Users\bmirletz\source\repos\sam_dev\SAM\deploy\runtime\help\html\pvwatts/pvwatts_location_and_resource.html

The actual path is: "C:\Users\bmirletz\source\repos\sam_dev\SAM\deploy\runtime\help\pvwatts\pvwatts_location_and_resource.html"

I was able to re-run xcopy to get it to work with xcopy .\build\html ..\deploy\runtime\help\html /s Should the Windows build instructions be updated?

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brtietz commented Feb 9, 2026

Appears to be a path error with incentives and depreciation: 15:26:08: Error: Failed to open URL "file:///C:\Users\bmirletz\source\repos\sam_dev\SAM\deploy\runtime\help\html\incentives/incentives.html" in default browser. (error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.)

Actual folder name is incentives-and-depreciation

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cpaulgilman commented Feb 11, 2026

I was able to re-run xcopy to get it to work with xcopy .\build\html ..\deploy\runtime\help\html /s Should the Windows build instructions be updated?

Yes. That should be fixed now.

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cpaulgilman commented Feb 11, 2026

Actual folder name is incentives-and-depreciation

Should be fixed with 15e9f28.

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Thanks for the fixes!

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Dead links in help to fix for 2025 fall release

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