Difference between revisions of "Application Help Development To Do"

Revision as of 09:48, 7 January 2007

This list of to-dos gives some ideas where in the Online Help your contribution may be needed most.

Writing new guides

See specification pages for information on new and changed features

Guides for Calc DataPilot

Guides for new Chart Module

Guides for Base Connectivity (all platforms): ODBC, JDBC, MySQL, Access

Guides for using form controls to create form documents

Guides for Writer Envelopes, Labels, Business Cards

Guides for Writer Mail Merge

Guides for Writer Numbering/Bullets

Guides for XForms documents

Guides for Impress Slides & Master slides

Guides for Impress Effects

Meta guides for Submitting OLH issues

Meta guides for Fixing OLH issues

Meta guides for Delivering OLH as Extensions

Help with restructuring of Online Help for OOo 3, see issue 52158

Work with different stakeholders to publish the Online Help pages on the Web, making them bookmarkable and googleable

and much more...

Improving existing guides

All guides of all modules should get navigation links to easily click through to the next/previous/parent page. You can submit an idea how to define a consecutive order for the existing guides.

Coding Help

As a developer with good programming skills and much energy and time, you can help to improve the Help in many ways. For example, we would like to improve the Help Viewer to fully support the Gecko rendering engine.

Standardisation of Help source files

Some help sources and related files need to be brought fully in line with the current specifications. See Help: Standardisation issues.