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The ability to show a specific help page is extremely helpful to those writing help for the ide. Potentially, a customer or third-party wanting to write help for Javahelp using our guidelines would find the Open to page command highly desirable when creating help. To see an example, checkout the File > Open to Page command in the menubar of the JavaHelp demo viewer. A file chooser opens and user can specify a specific html page to view in the JavaHelp display pane. For anyone writing help, it enables the author to test a help page in the ide for format problems or display problems with popup help windows or secondary help windows from the help page. This feature was originally requested on bug 9730 as part of the request for a menubar in the JavaHelp viewer. The demo version of which had one with an Open to Page command.
Since apisupport already provides the feature of opening a helpset to test it, treating this as a request for that viewer to specify a particular page (if you did not include it in the TOC yet, e.g.).
Target milestone -> 3.3
*** Issue 19433 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
#19433 also asks for the current location to be displayed, which is probably part and parcel of letting you open a new URL.
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
Just reload the module and look at the help set.