[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] staff client context help feature

[Soulliere, Robert]

Hi all,

I was digging around for information on context help. I was hoping to experiment to see what options were possible in regards to directing users to appropriate docs on the evergreen server or external servers.

The only information I found was this scratchpad info from 2010:

http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=scratchpad:custom_help

However, in testing I found that context help was only working for the OPAC search page even when help.html pages were in place in the prescribed locations. I tested on an older 2.2 master staff client  and 2.0 version with the same results. I also found that the debug console did not provide the information that it was supposed to.  I did not see messages such as:

set_help_context: {"protocol":"http:","hostname":"acq.open-ils.org","port":"","pathname":"/xul/acq_20100513/server/circ/checkin.xul","src":""}
nor
help widget: testing <http://acq.open-ils.org/help.html>
for example.

I would like to get information about the current state of this feature and a good starting point (code/page reference) if I want to experiment with pointing  context help to different sources on my test server.

I also wonder if this is a good time to reopen the discussion on this feature?

Thanks,
Robert




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