Advantages of Using the Online Help

The online version of the help system offer distinct advantages over the offline or built-in version of the help.

• It is always up-to-date for the release version
• The search function is more robust, using an engine called "ElasticSearch"

About ElasticSearch

ElasticSearch is a powerful search engine that provides numerous unique options, including:

• "fuzzy matching” (i.e., matching similar words)
• predictive search
• auto-completion

Figure 1-2: Example of auto-completion being used to find a function

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• The response time of auto-completion can be a little slow the first time you open the help with a browser instance. Unfortunately this is unavoidable due to server communication. Subsequent searches will be quick.