Bug 18900

Summary:	"topic not available" when displaying help in platform
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	Dorian Birsan <birsan>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	P1
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	2.0 F3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	18928
Bug Blocks:

Description Jim des Rivieres

2002-06-03 15:44:18 EDT

F2

0. Fresh install of Eclipse Platform *binary runtime* (not SDK).
1. Start eclipse
2. Help / Help Contents

Observe: The right hand pane says:
The topic that you have requested is not available. The link may be wrong, or 
you may not have the corresponding product feature installed. This online help 
only includes documentation for features that are installed.

Expectation: There is no problem.

3. Select Workbench User Guide (in left pane)
4. Hit Home icon

Observe: The right hand pane shows the error message again.
Expectation: There is no problem.

Help must not assume that anything other than the Eclipse Platform (XXX)
feature and its plug-ins are present (i.e, no JDT, no PDE, and no SDK 
features).

Comment 1 Dorian Birsan

2002-06-03 16:53:10 EDT

It looks like the help plugin in the platform binaries build does not contain 
the "doc" directory. The help home page is defined in preferences.ini and 
points to doc/help_home.html, but this file does not exist in the build.

Is there a reason why the doc directory is not in the build?

Comment 2 Jim des Rivieres

2002-06-03 17:21:48 EDT

Added dependency on 18928.

Comment 3 Dorian Birsan

2002-06-03 20:58:31 EDT

If there is a reason not to include the "doc" directories in a platform build, 
we can move the home_html file (and related images) to a different place.
For now, I assume we leave everything as is, and let the build fix the problem.

Comment 4 Dorian Birsan

2002-06-04 12:59:41 EDT

Nothing for us do to, just waiting for the build process to get cleaned up.

Comment 5 Dorian Birsan

2002-06-05 15:47:48 EDT

Bug 18928 has been fixed, so I will mark this defect as fixed.