I have recently spent quite some time to start up on a de-version of help with a focus on MRP and Catalog. Are you guys planning to run a migration script? Will the input remain as is today?
Carsten Gesendet mit BlackBerry® Webmail von Telekom Deutschland -----Original Message----- From: Tom Burns <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:27:38 To: OFBiz Dev List<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: RFC on Roadmap for Deploying webhelp for OFBiz All, Jacques and I have been working for some time on implementing a new help system for OFBiz based on the weblhelp component in docbook-xsl-1.77.1 (JIRA OFBIZ-4941 ) For those who are interested there is a specification attached to OFBIZ-4941 "OFBiz Help Spec.pdf" in the "helppdf.zip" and a demo implementation at: https://ec2-23-20-150-243.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8443/humanres/control/main Jacques has upgraded the trunk content in applications/content/template/docbook, which was a subset of docbook-xsl, to the latest release docbook-xsl-1.77.1 that contains the webhelp component. The following steps will complete the deployment: 1. Add content to a new folder applications/content/data/helpdata/docbookhelp 2. Add customizations to applications/content/template/docbook/webhelp 3. Modify framework/images/webapp/images/fieldlookup.js and header files in the themes folders. The solution transforms docbook files and deploys a website for each component documented in the docbookhelp folder using the ant build file in applications/content/template/docbook/webhelp/build.xml. The design does not integrate the webhelp build.xml with the OFBiz global-build system. My preference is to distribute the webhelp web-sites pre-built so help works OOTB. If changes are made then it is the responsibility of the help developer to run webhlep ant task as needed. The basic change path would be to make a change to a docbook file then run an ant task. The web site is updated with out requiring a server restart. I have committed to doing an "as is" migration of the current help information and providing how to wiki files for authors and developers after the initial implementation. To date humanres, accounting, projectmgr, manufacturing_en and manufacturing_nl have been migrated. Help content not migrated will work as before. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or reservations about completing the deployment as described. Cheers, Tom
