Currently we have hardcoded URLs for the Help -> Get Help Online and Send Feedback menu items, pointing to hub.libreoffice.org that takes users to the Askbot and the https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/feedback page. Now I'm in a situation where I'd like to customize these and centrally set up organization specific links so that: - we could have localized and site specific help contents/training materials instead of the Askbot link - and Feedback - or rather support requests - could be directed towards the company ticketing system / customer service. These menu items have good visibility from users POV, but in case of managed workstations the community based support resources just don't cut it. This is why I'm requesting this enhancement. Of course the default values of future configuration keys should be the current hard coded community resources. Code pointers: https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/search?project=core&q=&defs=&refs=SID_SEND_FEEDBACK&path=&hist=&type= https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/search?project=core&q=&defs=&refs=SID_Q_AND_A&path=&hist=&type= A similar option is already implemented for the Help -> About -> Website button: https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/cui/source/dialogs/about.cxx#118
Adding easyHack keywords as codepointers are provided
Hi!I am a newbie to bug fixing and I want an oppurtunity to work on this bug.
Hi, This looks intersting, I would like to work on this issue, but could you please brief it. >Now I'm in a situation where I'd like to customize these and centrally set up >organization specific links so that: >- we could have localized and site specific help contents/training materials >instead of the Askbot link >- and Feedback - or rather support requests - could be directed towards the >company ticketing system / customer service.
Saran, Ekansh: Gabor provided code pointers in comment 0, which direct you to the file where code needs to be changed and to a similar solution. The next step is seems pretty obvious :-) Please assign the ticket to yourself ("take") if you want to work on it.
A polite ping, still working on this bug?
I am assigning this bug to myself to work on it.
While Gabor stated to make localized changes that also ignore the hub for some locales as I understand it, I would like make the necessary changes to redirect the user to their default locale's Get Help Online and Send Feedback pages. But looking at the code, we see that this change is there. So what is the next step for this bug?
IMHO, the links in appserv.cxx should come from an 'Expert configuration' entry in the Advanced configuration, e.g. org.openoffice.xxxx.yyyy avilable in Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Advanced - Expert configuration. So appserv.cxx pick the link in the Expert config, which is set to the current hub.libreoffice.org as default.
Some thoughts from cloph: 19:36:04 - cloph: if you want an additional codepointer: just look at some of the other URLs that a distro-provider could already override like https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/search?q=STARTCENTER_ADDFEATURE_URL&project=core 19:39:25 - cloph: (and to be clear: that replacement/placeholder should then be for hub.libreoffice.org, the URL-parameter will stay as is/the distro-provider would have to add corresponding mappings in their webserver then)
Hello Xisco, I am working on it. Thank you!
I am no longer working on the issue. Changing status to NEW.
heiko tietze committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b2fdf08169fea536bc05e49bf63d70d6fdbfe31b tdf#113415 - Customizable links in Help menu It will be available in 6.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
The URLs are now defined in Common.xcu and written to Tools > Options > Advanced > Expert configuration: org.openoffice.Office.Common.Menus.*URL