Bug 18900 - "topic not available" when displaying help in platform
Summary: "topic not available" when displaying help in platform
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: User Assistance (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P1 critical (vote)
Target Milestone: 2.0 F3   Edit
Assignee: Dorian Birsan CLA
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Depends on: 18928
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Reported: 2002-06-03 15:44 EDT by Jim des Rivieres CLA
Modified: 2002-06-05 15:47 EDT (History)
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Description Jim des Rivieres CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2002-06-03 17:21:48 EDT 
Added dependency on 18928.
Comment 3 Dorian Birsan CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2002-06-05 15:47:48 EDT 
Bug 18928 has been fixed, so I will mark this defect as fixed.