CDOL context help
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:24 pm
In looking for ways to provide better context help for CDOL, we are considering using the wiki as targets for each help page.
As an example we would have the following pages in the wiki
Help:CDOL Context Help:Organization Summary
Help:CDOL Context Help:Organization Search Results
Help:CDOL Context Help:Home
Help:CDOL Context Help:Postion Search Results
Help:CDOL Context Help:Position Summary
Help:CDOL Context Help:Advanced Search
Within the application we already have each page named for usage tracking so getting a help link to map to these help pages would be relatively straightforward. It would mean having redirect pages for things like
Help:CDOL Context Help:Org:Summary:Main
Help:CDOL Context Help:Org:Summary:Expand:General
Help:CDOL Context Help:Search:Results:Org
Help:CDOL Context Help:Home
Help:CDOL Context Help:Search:Results:Position
Help:CDOL Context Help:Position:Summary
Help:CDOL Context Help:Search:Advanced:Inputs
I would like to get peoples thoughts on this. The main things I have thought about are
As an example we would have the following pages in the wiki
Help:CDOL Context Help:Organization Summary
Help:CDOL Context Help:Organization Search Results
Help:CDOL Context Help:Home
Help:CDOL Context Help:Postion Search Results
Help:CDOL Context Help:Position Summary
Help:CDOL Context Help:Advanced Search
Within the application we already have each page named for usage tracking so getting a help link to map to these help pages would be relatively straightforward. It would mean having redirect pages for things like
Help:CDOL Context Help:Org:Summary:Main
Help:CDOL Context Help:Org:Summary:Expand:General
Help:CDOL Context Help:Search:Results:Org
Help:CDOL Context Help:Home
Help:CDOL Context Help:Search:Results:Position
Help:CDOL Context Help:Position:Summary
Help:CDOL Context Help:Search:Advanced:Inputs
I would like to get peoples thoughts on this. The main things I have thought about are
- Will it be too much clutter in the wiki?
- Are there better ways to structure this?
- Are there other/better tools for this?
- I like the idea of the community being able to add tips/workarounds/etc
- Would it be wise to include language in the page name? or is there a better way to handle this?
- The one other note is that there are a lot of other pages that most of the ecclesiastical users don’t see around editing/admin/boundary change proposals would those be appropriate here?