When I look at the current state of the wiki I tend to agree with Tom... Jacques
From: "Tom" <tramseybu...@yahoo.com> > Adrian, > > Your example may not depend on another component but is did depend on a file > that was outside of the OFBiz app control and broke when that file changed. > This will never happen in the proposed solution. All files for a webapp are > generated from a single docbook file so there are no external dependencies. > > You can have external links in the webhelp files and there are examples in > the current upload. In the solution each locale has it's own file and would > point to an appropriate external reference for that locale. Naturally if > that external reference changes the link will break. > > I searched the trunk for http in *UiLabels.xml and there are 120 matches. I > found only one of them that references more then one locale > (CommonUiLabels.xml CommonLookupAnywhoLink), so as a practical matter this > is a solution that has not been used very much. > > Help in the proposed system is at the webapp level. UiLabels are more (and I > would argue too) fine grained for screen level context help. UI labels can > be used any where pointing to any thing. It would be very hard to maintain a > coherent help system using all the fragmented files that could spring from > labels. > > This is not to say that there is not a place for labels in cases like > CommonLookupAnywhoLink. The two mechanisms can co-exist but I think they > serve different purposes. A system like webhelp is better suited for > creating help documents for which it was designed while UiLabels were > designed for the purpose of providing i18n support for lables. > > Tom > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/OFBIZ-4941-tp4637418p4637442.html > Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
