Bug 102523 - help button for Advanced Filter too general
Summary: help button for Advanced Filter too general
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.1.4.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Rafael Lima
URL:
Whiteboard: target:7.3.0
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Reported: 2016-09-26 15:27 UTC by Larry
Modified: 2021-07-17 16:19 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Larry 2016-09-26 15:27:30 UTC
Pressing the help button in the Advanced Filter dialog sends me to:

https://help.libreoffice.org/index.php?title=5.1/Calc/Advanced_Filter&Language=en-US&System=UNIX&Version=5.1#bm_id3151113

This is not specific enough.  A better target would be:

https://help.libreoffice.org/5.1/Calc/Filter:_Applying_Advanced_Filters

This caused me to resort to ask how to on the newsgroup:

http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg49600.html

which could have been avoided if the more specific target
had been used.

-regards,
Larry
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2016-10-09 14:45:07 UTC
Ok, doc team can consider it.
Comment 2 Rafael Lima 2021-05-12 23:24:26 UTC
This bug still persists in LO 7.2.

The issue here seems to be that there are 2 help pages for the same thing.

The first one focuses on the dialog itself (and is incomplete). This is the one referenced by the Help button.
https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/scalc/01/12040300.html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=CALC&HID=modules/scalc/ui/advancedfilterdialog/dialog-action_area1#bm_id3154366

The second page is more complete and gives a good example.
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/guide/specialfilter.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3148798

But there's no way to go straight to this second page.

What I propose is to embed the specialfilter.xhp into the 12040300.xhp file, since this is the one targeted by the HID.

Also, the dialog page also needs to be updated, because the "Options" section is not documented.
Comment 3 Rafael Lima 2021-07-01 19:14:16 UTC
The proposed patch is available for review:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/help/+/118191
Comment 4 Commit Notification 2021-07-02 19:08:00 UTC
Rafael Lima committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/86d4cff5887833253bcfe95ecdb1689ef810315c

tdf#102523 Improve Advanced Filter help page