Bug 141990 - LO Help search results shouldn't direct you to context-less subpages
Summary: LO Help search results shouldn't direct you to context-less subpages
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
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Blocks: New-Help
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Reported: 2021-04-30 12:08 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2021-05-04 12:27 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2021-04-30 12:08:47 UTC 
I recently filed bug 141988, complaining about a help page I was reading had no context and wasn't positioned in any hierarchy of pages.

Olivier Hallot pointed out that it was legitimate for that kind of page, since it's really not a stand-alone page but rather an "auxiliary page", loaded within a larger page which is placed in a hierarchy.

Well, then, search results need to reflect this. That is, one of the following should happen:

1. Search results link only to non-auxiliary pages, with offset or anchor within the page corresponding to the search term, or

2. Search results locating an auxiliary page should link to both the aux page and (one of) the containing page(s).
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2021-05-01 15:21:06 UTC 
Some unobtrusive indexing per article like a MediaWiki 'What links here' positioned at the bottom of each panel?
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2021-05-01 18:39:38 UTC 
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> Some unobtrusive indexing per article like a MediaWiki 'What links here'
> positioned at the bottom of each panel?

I'm not quite following.... what panel? Also, are you sure you're not suggesting a solution for the closed bug 141988?
Comment 3 V Stuart Foote 2021-05-01 19:00:54 UTC 
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2)
> 
> I'm not quite following.... what panel? 

Any Online (or Installed) Help's .XHP article.

Example from MediaWiki context would be:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla

with its 'What links here' of:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Special:WhatLinksHere/QA/Bugzilla
Comment 4 Eyal Rozenberg 2021-05-01 19:09:54 UTC 
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> Some unobtrusive indexing per article like a MediaWiki 'What links here'
> positioned at the bottom of each panel?

I had a suggestion of adding some info in my bug 141988, but this was shot down because the subpage is included - likely without content removal - in other individual pages, and it's not a great idea to have multiple "what links here" links on the same page.