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#1 User is online   James Ross 

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Posted 14 December 2015 - 04:35 AM

Open Rails comes with a variety of useful documentation, most specifically the manual itself, but provides no access to them from the menu. The installer drops a link to the manual in to the Start Menu but that's all. I believe a button similar to the existing "Tools" drop-down button that listed the available documentation would be useful to people, particularly those using the Testing builds (which come with documentation but not installers).

Blueprint: https://blueprints.l...+spec/menu-docs

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Posted 14 December 2015 - 07:42 AM

A very good idea!

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Posted 14 December 2015 - 09:52 AM

James,

If you do not mind, I would definitely volunteer for this.

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Posted 14 December 2015 - 09:57 AM

It's a very useful feature.

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Posted 14 December 2015 - 10:04 AM

View Postedwardk, on 14 December 2015 - 09:52 AM, said:

If you do not mind, I would definitely volunteer for this.

Be my guest.

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Posted 14 December 2015 - 07:13 PM

A great idea, James. Thank you.

Cheers Bazza.

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Posted 15 December 2015 - 03:30 AM

It would be useful to me too. Thanks for taking it on.
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Posted 15 December 2015 - 09:39 AM

Might this be an opportunity to try out the optional html broadcast feature (e.g., display to a handheld device)?

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Posted 15 December 2015 - 01:35 PM

I suggest to insert provisions for multilingual documentation (e.g. if there is a german version of the manual and if german has been selected as OR language, the german version of the manual is displayed).

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Posted 16 December 2015 - 03:52 AM

I just completed the basis of the work. The button operation that I copied is the Tools button. I created a Documents folder under the program folder and I have been testing with pdf files. As far as other file formats, I would have to assume that the doc format will also be included. I am not sure how much further we want to take this concept, but what I am testing now is working well. I just need to make sure that the Documents naming convention for the folder is fine or should this be changed?

Edit: As it is now, any pdf file or doc file that is in the Documents folder will be part of the button selection.

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