Adding Help Information to Content blocks (Edit mode)

[richard.prosser]

Hi everyone,

I am familiar with Python but not (yet) Django or Merengue, though I
have read much of the documentation.

I would like to make the CMS easier for non-technical people to use,
by proviing localised 'user guides' when editing content or changing
block configurations etc. Presumably the relevant text, videos or
whatever could be selected via a suitable button.

What would be the best way of implementing that feature however? It
doesn't seem to be a plug-in as such, rather a change to the existing
code. In that case one would need to bear in mind integration with
future releases of the core CMS, which implies some kind of Model
inheritance I believe. Also editing/uploading of the various Help
assets should be straightforward of course, for an administrator.

Any suggestions would be very welcome.


Thanks ...

Richard

[Manuel Saelices]

Hello,

providing some contextual help system to the Merengue CMS is one of the features we love to have implemented for the 0.9 version.

I have written a "draft" for a first approach for achieving it:

http://dev.merengueproject.org/ticket/2182

I'd like to get feedback because I don't know if you refer something like I've defined in the ticket or you refer something different.

Also, others related topics are:

 * improve the user guide documentation (the easiest way to improve Merengue for non technical users)

 * plugins documentation (useful before installing it)

 * blocks detailed help, visible in the plugin admin view and in the public UI (in each block)

Regards,

Manuel Saelices.

2011/7/17 richard.prosser <ebiz...@gmail.com>

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