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Damian Hickey
PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:35 am 
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Hi,

We are hoping to add detailed component help into Joomla.

What are the accepted practices related to adding component help to the Admin top menu Help menu and reusing the exiting com_admin help process for specific component entries?

I don't seem to have found this in the forums and doco so far. If there are no standards, we are happy to suggest a draft of one and describe how it would be used.

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Damian

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:52 am 
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Perhaps this answers your question?
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Damian Hickey
PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:12 pm 
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Hi,

Thanks for that but we are more interested in adding help into Joomla itself. We have a simple solution to use the nice lifesaver float icons at the far left of each page like on the Extension install/unistall page etc.

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I can't remember the specific details, but I think you just add a /help directory to your component admin directory and use one of the JToolBarHelper methods to link to it by name. The help file itself can be XML, such as DocBook, or HTML.

You might like to ask this question on the developer forum where you might get further information.

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Damian Hickey
PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:54 am 
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Thanks so much Chris, I really appreciate your help!

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Ah... I misunderstood your original question Damian. See this thread.

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Hi there,

Thanks for your help. That looks like what I needed.

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