Both systems simply require a bunch of urls to point to. The urls can be both static local html pages, web sites, local or even remote content pages. Using the helpurls.suffix variable it will be possible to specify an eventual "?locale=it" parameter that can be useful cor CMS.
-Bruno 2008/4/17, pierre.gaudin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi all, > > This work on help system is very interesting. I wanted to know if the > pages of help could use the content module because I think that would > simplify the maintenance of this help and uses functionalities which are > already developed. > > Pierre > > Skip Dever (JIRA) a écrit : > > > [ > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1754?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12589760#action_12589760] > > Skip Dever commented on OFBIZ-1754: > > ----------------------------------- > > > > Adrian > > > > This help only shows the help icon if help has been defined in the > > screen widget with a set-field tag. If no set-field tag, no help icon. > > > > If you download and install the zip file and modify the example as shown > > (the CommonScreens.xml file for the example is included in the zip file), > > you will only have help available when the example tab is clicked on. All > > other tabs show no help icon. > > > > Skip > > > > > > > > > An Alternative Help System > > > -------------------------- > > > > > > Key: OFBIZ-1754 > > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1754 > > > Project: OFBiz > > > Issue Type: New Feature > > > Components: ALL COMPONENTS > > > Reporter: Skip Dever > > > Priority: Minor > > > Attachments: htmlhelp.ZIP, screenshot-1.jpg, screenshot-2.jpg > > > > > > > > > This is an alternative help system to the one offered by Bruno at: > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1750 > > > This one offers simplicity and requires no changes the Ofbiz core > > > code. The only modifications required are to the GlobalDecorator screen > > > in > > > framework/common/widget/CommonScreens.xml and > > > framework/common/webcommon/includes/header.ftl > > > GlogalDecorator is modified to call a bash script to load the help url > > > with these two additions in the actions section: > > > <set field="layoutSettings.helpImageUrl" > > > value="/images/help.gif" global="true"/> > > > <script > > > location="component://help/webapp/help/WEB-INF/actions/gethelpurl.bsh"/> > > > header.ftl is modified by adding these lines > > > <#if helpUrl?exists> > > > <p><a target="_blank" href="${helpUrl}"><img > > > src="<@ofbizContentUrl>/images/help.gif</@ofbizContentUrl>" > > > alt="Help"/></a> > > > </#if> right below: > > > <p>${timeZone.getDisplayName(timeZone.useDaylightTime(), > > > Static["java.util.TimeZone"].LONG, locale)} <a Then, all that is required > > > to > > > to define a helpTag in each screen that has help available like this in > > > the > > > example application: > > > <screen name="main"> > > > <section> > > > <actions> > > > <set field="helpTag" value="examplehelp"/> > > > </actions> > > > The enclosed zip file contains a "help" directory that goes in > > > hot-deploy. In addition, I have included the modified test files in the > > > "framework" directory. > > > Also included are a few example help screens. These can be found in > > > help/helpFiles/html/en > > > There are only help files for the english language. You can create > > > help files for any language by creating a > > > help/helpFiles/html/<getLanguage()> directory and putting them in there. > > > Also included is some seed data to populate the HelpCrossReference > > > table with an entry for the example. > > > Note that this work was done on a version of Ofbiz from the first of > > > the year and there may be some differences in the modified framework > > > files. > > > Here is a sample entry for the HelpCrossReference entity: > > > <HelpCrossReference helpTag="examplehelp" > > > helpFileName="examplehelp.html" /> > > > The bash script that loads the pages uses the current local to extract > > > the language. With english, this is "en". It then creates a url rooted > > > in > > > helpFiles/html with the language and the html file obtained from > > > HelpCrossReference. > > > One final note. The bash script that creates the urls from the help > > > tags converts all the tags to lower case. You can comment that code out > > > or > > > import your help cross references with the helpTag in lower case as I did. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
