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Tom Burns commented on OFBIZ-4941:
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Jacques,
1. Accounting and HR are only supported now but it is not too much work to port
the others, a bit of cut an paste. Be happy do to that if the community thinks
this is a solution.
2. Two windows (and only two) are the goal.
The issue is, after you have a help window open and return to OFBiz and then
invoke help, the desired behavior is to have the Webhelp browser get the focus.
Try Chrome, it does what I had in mind.
(Downside in Chrome is it does not open the back and forward buttons.
They are very helpful when you use one of the internal links, say to a glossary
item, and want to return the screen where you invoked the request. Webhelp
navigation is mostly linear, go forward, go back. You need the browser back and
forward buttons for a complete navigation solution)
3. If you move to Invoices and then invoke help, help will be updated in the
WebHelp browser but (and this is the same as 2) the user does not get any
feedback.
Unless the WebHelp browser is visible on the screen, the user will not know the
request was acted on.
The desired behavior is for the browser with Webhelp to get the focus when the
user invokes OFBiz help (Chrome does this).
Other features to note:
Try search:
In HR App search for Employee
In Accounting search for Invoice
Links:
Blue Underlined - links to another topic
Blue Underlined Italic - links to a Glossary item
See HR App Intra-Application Integration and HR App Menu in:
http://ec2-23-20-150-243.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/ofbizhelp/humanres_en/content/ch01s01.html
Blue Underlined Bold - links to an external resource
See Demo and Test Setup Guide in:
http://ec2-23-20-150-243.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/ofbizhelp/humanres_en/content/ch02s02.html
Thanks for your encouraging comments,
Tom
> Proposal for a new help system
> ------------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-4941
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4941
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Affects Versions: SVN trunk
> Reporter: Jacques Le Roux
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: docbook-xsl-1.77.1.zip, HelpAccounting.jpg, helppdf.zip,
> HelpPerformanceReview1.jpg, HelpPerformanceReview2.jpg, HelpRoadmap.jpg,
> jh.jar, LICENSE.html, OFBIZ-4941 POC HR Help.patch, webhelp.jpg
>
>
> Quoting Tom Burns at OFBIZ-4869
> {quote}
> This is a status update just to let anyone who is interested know that this
> item is being worked on.
> I started out using the OFBiz structure for help docs but after a while I
> needed/wanted something more expressive.
> Here is what I wound up using for development:
> Java Help System http://java.net/projects/javahelp/content
> DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide
> http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/docbook.html
> http://www.docbook.org/xml/5.0/
> DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/docbook-xsl/1.77.1/docbook-xsl-1.77.1.zip
> Help Master - FE for managing java help files. Best feature drag and drop
> TOC creates TOC matching file folder structure. Convenient launcher for
> viewing & testing. http://www.halogenware.com/software/helpmaster.html
> XML Mind XML Editor - Free Personal Edition is far better then editing in
> Eclipse. download from http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml
> Tutorial - DocBook editing with XML Mind XML Editor. Worth going through
> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/tutorial.html
> Read Me First style guide from Sun (cost from Amazon 1 cent + shipping)
> Attached are some screen shots of the results.
> Every screen is/will be documented in a similar structure. This is as much
> for defining requirements and testing as for help. More work but worth it.
> The screenshots show a Java Help format generated using DocBook XSL. This
> will likely not be the final presentation format.
> Note the Performance Review screen shots do not match the trunk. There is a
> bug in update screen and I did some clean up of labels and drop-down list.
> There are issues like this all through the application so I did not want to
> get bogged down with patches at this time.
> {quote}
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