Creating guides for your apps

You can help users by providing guides to your app that appear in the Quickbase help menu:

To add guides to the Quickbase help menu:

1. Create your guides directly within Quickbase as rich text pages.
   
   Tip: Instead of creating guides inside Quickbase, you can also point to external web pages by adding a single meta refresh tag to each rich text page. When users click the link, they a redirected the web page you specify. Here is the example code:

   <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=https://www.example.com/"  />

2. Select App settings in the sidebar, then select App properties.

3. Click Branding. In the Custom help section you can define up to three guides.

4. Complete the following tasks to create your guide:

1. 1. Type a name for your guide in the Title box. This is the name users see and click to access your guide. So, do your best to make it helpful and descriptive.
   2. Click the Links to drop down and select the page you created to serve as a guide.
      
      This page name should end in .html to identify the application page that contains the guide.
   3. Type additional information about the guide in the Description box.
      
      This is especially important if you create multiple guides for different audiences. Use the description to help users understand which guide to choose and what content is in each.
   4. Click Save.
      
      Your end users see the titles for each guide you enter at the top of the help menu. When users click a guide's title, it opens in a new browser window.

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