Application Help Development To Do
This list of to-dos gives some ideas where in the Online Help your contribution may be needed most.
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Writing new guides
See specification pages for information on new and changed features
Guides for Calc DataPilot
Improving Calc function references (a big thank you to David King for his help, see issue 71289)
Guides for new Chart Module (a big thank you to Regina for her updated files, see issue 60360)
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 - an alpha version (a proof of concept, using some old data) can be seen at the documentation project site
Guide for Regular Expression Searches
Guide for Mail Merge
New Start page for Tools-Options (see also 54487)
Troubleshooting Information
Introductory table guides for Writer, Calc and Base
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.
