Re: user editable context sensitive online help

On 29/01/2009, at 8:37 PM, Raphael Ritz wrote:

> Dylan Jay wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> Not sure if this off topic or not but just had an inspiration for an
>> online help solution while responding to a tender.
>> If every plone site had a help folder that contained content with a
>> special field for matching urls. Say a regular expression. So then
>> content creators could provide their own help pages for any screen
>> like ".*login_form" would match any login form screen. Then have a
>> global viewlet that puts links to help content available for that
>> page. Put that viewlet in a consistent location.
>> If such a system existed we might be able to ship parts of the user
>> manual as online help linked to relevant pages. Idea might need
>> refinement to handle upgrades of that standard help however.
>>
>> If others like the idea I'll put it as a plip? Are there other such
>> online help proposals out there?
>
> This idea is so good that others had it before ;-)
>
> The first I'm aware of is
> http://plone.org/products/plonehelpregistry
> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/38
>
> This has been followed up and been refined by
> http://plone.org/products/contextualhelp
> https://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.app.contextualhelp/
> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/119
>
Fantastic. Seems crazy when I now think about it not to have an out of  
the box context help for base plone. esp one that can be added to by  
non technical users.


> but unfortunately things where never finalized. :-(
>
> So it seems to me like there is something to build upon,
> there should be more people around who might commit themselves
> to this and if we are lucky all it needs is someone to
> champion those efforts (push, coordinate, motivate, ...)
>
> Does that sound like something you could be up to ;-

Yep. I'm personally overcommitted on side projects at the moment but  
if we win the tender we'd be aiming to build a generic system on the  
best of what's out there.

>
>
> Raphael
>
>
>>
>> Dylan.	
>>
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