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[platform-help-dev] Eclipse help system requirements
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For Eclipse 2.0, the IBM ID community has put forward the
following help system affordance requirements.
1. Require at least the affordances used in Eclipse V1.0
- TOC rendering:
- Level 1 nodes affordance (v1 called them infosets,
and showed them in a drop-down list)
- Level 2 nodes affordance (v1 called them infoviews,
and showed them as tabs on the nav frame) *** NOTE:
The ability to display different views of the navigation
is critical.
- Level 3+ nodes in nav tree (topics, shown in tree;
Level 3 nodes served as search filters)
- Printing:
- individual topics
- topic trees
- Synchronization
- Show/Hide navigation
- Forward/Back
- Search advanced options (search headings; search filtering)
2. Additional new requirements
- TOC rendering:
- Expand/collapse all for nav tree
- Bookmarking topics
- Search:
- Ability to specify case sensitivity
- Search hits return <h1> from content file, not
navigation label
- Infopops:
- A visual cue on UIs that there is context-sensitive
help available
- higher/lower context sensitivity on infopops
(e.g., an arrow on an infopop for a field that will
take you to the wizard's infopop)
Kari Halsted
User Assistance PDT
IBM Canada - Toronto Software Lab
(905) 413-3331 / tl 969-3331 / D3-238
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach