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[[Category:Eiffel Information System]]
[[Category:Extending EiffelStudio]]

==General==
This article demonstrate the way to extend [[Eiffel Information System]] (EIS) within EiffelStudio to support more [[Eiffel Information System#Protocol|protocols]]. To support a new protocol in EiffelStudio, the only thing to do is to provide a new {{red|Help Provider}}.

==Steps to Create a New Help Provider ==
===Redefining ES_EIS_ENTRY_HELP_PROVIDER===

===Adding a New Kind of Help Provider===
All known kinds of help providers should be written in class <e>{HELP_PROVIDER_KINDS}</e>.
An instance of <e>{UUID}</e> and a string of that uuid are needed in the class.
Existing example:
<e>
...
frozen pdf: !UUID
-- PDF help system
once
create Result.make_from_string (pdf_uuid_string)
end
...
pdf_uuid_string: !STRING_8 = "BA35A9BB-5B69-4BD3-88B3-FB8DAE5CA08E"
...
</e>

===Registering Help Provider===
Doing this to make the system really take the new protocol into account.
Added a line at <e>{ES_SERVICE_INITIALIZER}.register_help_provider</e>
This is an existing example:
<e>a_service.register_provider (l_kinds.pdf, {PDF_HELP_PROVIDER})</e>

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 ==General==
 This article demonstrate the way to extend [[Eiffel Information System]] (EIS) within EiffelStudio to support more [[Eiffel Information System#Protocol|protocols]]. To support a new protocol in EiffelStudio, the only thing to do is to provide a new {{red|Help Provider}}.

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 ==Steps to Create a New Help Provider ==
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+===Inherit ES_EIS_ENTRY_HELP_PROVIDER===
 ===Adding a New Kind of Help Provider===