Put links to manual.mahara.org into Mahara itself
Bug #1393656 reported by
Aaron Wells
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Mahara |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
In Bug 1393465, Tobias suggested the idea of putting links to manual.mahara.org into Mahara itself, kind of like how Moodle contains links to the Moodle online documentation.
I think this is a great idea. Our manual is even better suited to direct linking than the Moodle one, because it's static instead of being a wiki, and we have separate versions of it up for different Mahara versions and languages. Plus people are often unaware of the manual and surprised when they discover it, and how complete it is.
| Changed in mahara: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| Aaron Wells (u-aaronw) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in mahara: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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A few things to keep in mind:
1. The manual page URL contains the series and language code: http://
2. That aside, the page URLs may change from one release to another. So we'd need to automatically check these with each release. On the other hand, if we use a function to auto-detect them, then that should make it easy to find all the places where that function is called and look at the relative URL passed to it.
3. The manual is not available in all languages. Currently it's only translated into English, German, French, and Dutch. Sites that are using other languages might not want links to a foreign-language manual all over the place. Also, some sites might want to disable the help links because it's a link to an external site. So there should probably be a config-defaults.php setting to disable the help links sitewide.