Doc Assistant looks through some pre-defined locations to find the documentation for Cadence help forms and user created custom help forms. These location and order in which they are processed to show the documentation are mentioned below.

Doc Assistant lookup order for Cadence help forms

1. Doc Assistant looks in the first specified document library in -hierarchy argument.
2. Doc Assistant looks in the <doc_assistant_install_directory>/doc directory.

Doc Assistant lookup order for custom/user-created help forms

1. Doc Assistant uses the CSF mechanism to load the help documentation.

   This feature in not available on Windows platform.

2. Doc Assistant looks in the <doc_assistant_install_directory>/local/doc directory.

3. Doc Assistant looks in the $HOME/doc directory.

   In windows Doc Assistant looks in %userprofile%\doc directory.