Broken help for filters

kitodo / kitodo-production

Kitodo.Production is a workflow management tool for mass digitization and is part of the Kitodo Digital Library Suite.

http://www.kitodo.org/software/kitodoproduction/

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Broken help for filters #478

Closed stweil closed 7 years ago

stweil commented 8 years ago

The online help uses wiki.goobi.orgwhich is now down.

Goobi/newpages/inc/Process_Filter.jsp: <h:outputLink id="aslsid11" target="_blank" value="http://wiki.goobi.org/index.php/Filter_f%C3%BCr_Vorg%C3%A4nge">
Goobi/newpages/inc/Step_Filter.jsp:    <h:outputLink id="aslsid11" target="_blank" value="http://wiki.goobi.org/index.php/Filter_f%C3%BCr_Vorg%C3%A4nge">

Maybe the old help text should be made available in a local file, so it can be maintained with the source code? Ideally there would also be a version for each supported language.

henning-gerhardt commented 8 years ago

Do this GitHub wiki page help?

stweil commented 8 years ago

Yes, it helps, thank you. PR #479 uses that new URL. What about language, is support for English still a development goal? I noticed that https://www.kitodo.org/ has no English text.

henning-gerhardt commented 8 years ago

Multi-language support is still a strategic goal of development. But I can not say anything to website content. Please use the contact mail address to get an answer to your question.

stweil commented 8 years ago

That's @jens-bemme, I assume.

matthias-ronge commented 8 years ago

Maybe distributing the user help along with the JAR file should be considered. There are Kitodo installations which run without internet connection, so having user help hosted on the same server should be worth it. The same could also be linked from the kitodo.org website.

henning-gerhardt commented 8 years ago

Providing offline help should only be done if online help is up to date and I don't know how we could provide some kind of offline help.

henning-gerhardt commented 7 years ago

Can I close this issue as it is resolved?

stweil commented 7 years ago

The initial issue was solved by PR #479. Two questions arose:

Wouldn't it be better to provide help with the software (available without Internet connection, matches the software version)?
What about English?

If you prefer, those questions can be tracked in a new issue.

henning-gerhardt commented 7 years ago

Your two questions more a general decision and should not be discussed in this specific issue. Your first question should be discussed in a issue or on the developer mailing list. Your second question is to general to answer as multi language support for software is a goal and should be respect on every commit which affect user interface output.

henning-gerhardt commented 7 years ago

Removing milestone Kitodo.Production 2.0 as used URL is changed and future solution how to display help or helping information is a goal of an other milestone.

henning-gerhardt commented 7 years ago

Closing as solved.