is a global option that specifies which directories are searched for additional help files used within the help system.


AddOnHelpPath
is a global option that specifies which directories are searched for additional help files used within the help system.
Details

- These help files are used for add-ons contained within subdirectories of $UserBaseDirectory and $BaseDirectory.
- The directories to be searched are specified using the FrontEnd`FileName function. Typical directories included in AddOnHelpPath are FrontEnd`FileName[{$UserBaseDirectory,"Autoload"}] and FrontEnd`FileName[{$BaseDirectory,"Applications"}].
- Help notebooks should be in a subdirectory called Documentation/language, where language is determined by the value of the global variable $Language. It can be any language recognized by the system, such as English, French, or German.
See Also
Menu Items: Documentation Center
History
Introduced in 1999 (4.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1999), AddOnHelpPath, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AddOnHelpPath.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1999. "AddOnHelpPath." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AddOnHelpPath.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1999). AddOnHelpPath. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AddOnHelpPath.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_addonhelppath, author="Wolfram Research", title="{AddOnHelpPath}", year="1999", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AddOnHelpPath.html}", note=[Accessed: 18-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_addonhelppath, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={AddOnHelpPath}, year={1999}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AddOnHelpPath.html}, note=[Accessed: 18-August-2025]}