Re: Help Systems in Web Application - Any ideas..

Can you just embed links to a media wiki server?

Summers Pittman
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On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Shane Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm reaching out to the members here to see if anyone has worked with a
> requirement where they were asked to produce an in-application help system
> that renders mixed content (Text + Images).
>
> This is the first time I've had this request and was wanting to get some
> ideas / best practices around producing this in an web application
> environment.
>
> Our stack is a common web stack utilizing Spring/Hibernate on the backend
> with a Dojo client on the front end.
>
> The tricky part about this is that they want to be able to produce
> page/context specific help with the ability to do inline updates to the
> help files, linking back to this throughout the application.
>
> In the legacy system, they leveraged some Domino CMS features to achieve
> this.. however, this feels like something a CMS would do well versus
> building an inhouse solution, but I am not aware of any third part
> solutions.  The other aspect is that they have to be i18n compliant and
> will contain images - so storage will be mixed content.
>
> We do not have a media server, nor are they willing to purchase one -
> which makes storing the images a bit tricky as they are pasted inline as
> the content is edited.
>
> Thus, any advice/help in a direction that is both effective and
> implementable by a small team would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> -DaCrazyCoder aka (Shane)
>
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