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The Adobe Community Help AIR application is a preview of Adobe's next-generation help experience. This beta release is configured to work with Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst content. The Community Help AIR application lets you:
- Access up-to-date definitive reference content online and offline
- Find the most relevant content contributed by experts from the Adobe community
- Comment on, rate, and contribute to content in the Adobe community
- Locate code examples with integrated code search
- Download Help content directly to your desktop to use and search offline
- Use dynamic navigation based on search results to find related content
- Enjoy content updates and feature enhancements without reinstalling the AIR app
Check out the Community Help beta and send us your feedback. Please keep in mind that this is a beta release and it contains bugs and incomplete features. For known bugs, please see the release notes. We suggest that you use it for testing and exploratory purposes only.
Getting Started
Follow these steps to get started with the Community Help beta:
- Click "Install Now" in the banner at the top of this page.
- Read the Release Notes
- Optional: Install Flash Builder 4 beta and/or Flash Catalyst beta and explore the learning content and code examples in the Community Help beta that support these products.
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Ask questions and share your feedback in the Community Help forum
Please note that your submission of comments, ideas, feature requests and techniques on this and other Adobe maintained forums, as well as Adobe's right to use such materials, is governed by the Terms of Use.
Community
Below you'll find references and links to help you participate in the Community Help user community.
Online Forum
Ask questions and discuss ideas with other Community Help users in the Labs forums.
Please note that your submission of comments, ideas, feature requests and techniques on this and other Adobe maintained forums, as well as Adobe's right to use such materials, is governed by the Terms of Use.
Links
Resources
If you want to learn more about releases on Labs as well as other Adobe technologies, visiting a user group or connecting with an Adobe Community Expert is a great place to start.
Product Details
FAQ
- What is the goal of Community Help?
- Connect users with the best answers, resources, or code examples quickly.
- Enable all Adobe users to contribute to learning and support content.
- Improve content quality by sharing expertise across the Adobe community.
- Offer next generation tools for search and dynamic navigation.
- What are the goals of the Community Help AIR application beta?
- Feature design can only be perfected when users have had a chance to interact with and contribute feedback. We look forward to your valuable user input.
- I just want to access Adobe Help. Is that still available?
- Yes. You can access all existing Adobe Help content. Choose Help>product Help from any Adobe product and you will find the Help resources available for that product. You can also narrow search results in Community Help using search filters.
- I don’t want answers from everyone, just Adobe or select experts. How do I filter through all that information on the web?
- The Community search filter includes only sites that have been hand picked by a community product expert, narrowing the web down to a top tier set of resources. Search filters such as "Adobe.com" or "Local content" (which searches Adobe Help content you have downloaded to your computer) allow further control.
- Why Adobe AIR?
- Adobe AIR enables you to have your favorite web applications with you all the time. Because AIR applications run on your desktop, you can work offline. With Community Help, you can access Adobe Help content and code anytime, and enjoy updates to features and content without having to reinstall software. Learn more about Adobe AIR.
- Can I contribute to Community Help?
- Yes. We know Adobe isn’t the only expert on our products and technology. Submit code samples, tutorials, articles, or links to recommended content, and have them published in real time on Adobe.com. Learn more: Contribute to Community Help.
- Can I work offline?
- Yes. Unlike web based Help, Community Help lets you download Adobe Help content for just the products you want, so you can search and browse quickly offline.
System Requirements
The Community Help AIR application has been tested with Adobe AIR 1.5.General system requirements for AIR are available on Adobe.com.
This technology is available in English only.
Release Notes
This release of Community Help is prerelease software and is designed for evaluation purposes only. The software contained within the installer is not final; but, many portions of the technology are fully implemented and ready for you to try and discuss.
