Get-Help Path parameter does not return provider help

[ThomasNieto]

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Steps to reproduce

If you look at the example 11 in Get-Help you'll notice that the Path parameter should change the help data returned to be specific about the provider.

Expected behavior

Get-Help Get-Item -Path SQLSERVER:\DataCollection

NAME

    Get-Item

SYNOPSIS

    Gets a collection of Server objects for the local computer and any computers

    to which you have made a SQL Server PowerShell connection.
    ...

Set-Location SQLSERVER:\DataCollection
SQLSERVER:\DataCollection> Get-Help Get-Item

NAME

    Get-Item

SYNOPSIS

    Gets a collection of Server objects for the local computer and any computers

    to which you have made a SQL Server PowerShell connection.
    ...

Actual behavior

Get-Help Get-Item -Path SQLSERVER:\DataCollection

NAME
    Get-Item

SYNOPSIS
    Gets the item at the specified location.


SYNTAX
    Get-Item [-Credential <System.Management.Automation.PSCredential>] [-Exclude <System.String[]>] [-Filter
    <System.String>] [-Force] [-Include <System.String[]>] -LiteralPath <System.String[]> [-Stream <System.String[]>]
    [<CommonParameters>]

    Get-Item [-Path] <System.String[]> [-Credential <System.Management.Automation.PSCredential>] [-Exclude
    <System.String[]>] [-Filter <System.String>] [-Force] [-Include <System.String[]>] [-Stream <System.String[]>]
    [<CommonParameters>]


DESCRIPTION
    The `Get-Item` cmdlet gets the item at the specified location. It doesn't get the contents of the item at the
    location unless you use a wildcard character (`*`) to request all the contents of the item.

    This cmdlet is used by PowerShell providers to navigate through different types of data stores.

Error details

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Environment data

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.4.0-preview.1
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.4.0-preview.1
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.19044
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Visuals

No response

[sdwheeler]

Provider help does not work because we are no longer publishing help for providers in MAML format. The documentation build pipeline doesn't support creation of provider help. It's not likely that we will support provider help anytime soon.

[sdwheeler]

We look to improve the documentation pipeline in the future. We will revisit this in the future.

[ghost]

This issue has been marked as external and has not had any activity for 1 day. It has been be closed for housekeeping purposes.