[Design] Re: [Cosmo] Collection Detail (and other) Help Pages

[Bobby Rullo]

I can do that. But I would need a (minimal....VERY minimal as we are  
close to the wire here) design from PPD.

PPD?

Bobby
On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Jared Rhine wrote:

>> Jared, any ideas on what the link should be? I know you wanted
>> something with a layer of indirection (i.e. a url that redirects
>> somewhere else...)
>
> The indirection that I propose is an interstitial page on the server
> side; ie, add one page to the Cosmo distro, but no real content.
>
> The user clicks on the link.  It takes them to a 1-pager hosted inside
> Cosmo.  The one-pager in Cosmo says essentially "sorry there's nothing
> here yet.  In the mean time, we have some fine on-line documentation
> available at the OSAF wiki, http://blahblah.
>
> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 10:11 -0800, Bobby Rullo wrote:
>> Sufficient for now at the very least, but the URL should have a
>> version # in it, so that people can get help for the version of Cosmo
>> they have.
>
> This is a reasonable idea, until we don't need it anymore because the
> docs ship with Cosmo.  In the mean time, the link itself would go
> locally, and the "link to OSAF wiki" inside that Cosmo page would  
> direct
> to a new Projects/CosmoHelpZeroSix perhaps (probably with included
> sections from the actual pages we want on that help landing page).
>
> The reason the interstitial page makes sense from a software packaging
> perspective if that packages are supposed to be standalone, and
> essentially work on disconnected boxes.  This is for off-the-network,
> internal-only, test environments, installing old versions, etc.   
> But the
> help button should still do *something* useful.
>
> Serious implementers may want to replace the help documentation
> entirely.  I think it helps them to have at least 1 local page to
> override as well, though overriding the URL sorta works for that use
> case too.
>
> -- 
> Jared Rhine <jared at wordzoo.com>
>
>
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