Bug 18502 - [Help] preserve browser state between browsing and refreshing links/search
Summary: [Help] preserve browser state between browsing and refreshing links/search
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: User Assistance (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2   Edit
Hardware: PC All
: P4 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: platform-ua-inbox CLA
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Keywords: usability
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Reported: 2002-05-31 15:13 EDT by Dorian Birsan CLA
Modified: 2011-04-21 18:49 EDT (History)
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Description Dorian Birsan CLA 2002-05-31 15:13:09 EDT 
If help is up, and you do search from workbench or F1->click on related link, 
the help viewer is refreshed with a new url, but the old state of the other 
help views (tabs) changes. It would be nice to preserve it.
Comment 1 Dorian Birsan CLA 2002-05-31 15:14:23 EDT 
Will look at it post 2.0
Comment 2 Dorian Birsan CLA 2002-07-08 14:45:50 EDT 
Re-opening the bug...
Comment 3 Konrad Kolosowski CLA 2005-05-04 17:28:18 EDT 
Marking as P4 - unlikely to be looked at for 3.1.
Comment 4 Chris Goldthorpe CLA 2007-06-15 18:07:59 EDT 
Hi Dorian, can you explain this a little more. To me it looks as though if you get context help in an infopop and click on a link it switches to the help browser but leaves the tab containing the tree intact.
Comment 5 Dorian Birsan CLA 2007-06-15 18:29:04 EDT 
Yes. As the links tab is refreshed to show the related links carried over from the infopop, all the other tabs in the help browser should be left untouched. Or at least, should appear untouched. For example, if the help browser was displaying the search tab with a particular search result selected, and you click in a workbench infopop, the browser's links tab displays the related topics from the infopop, but the search tab would still display the same old results and selected hit.
Comment 6 Chris Goldthorpe CLA 2011-04-21 18:49:43 EDT 
For several releases Help/Search and F1 help has opened in the help view, not the help browser so this is no longer a problem. Closing