Bug 161534 - Add a Help button in the functions deck to open the respective documentation page for the selected function
Summary: Add a Help button in the functions deck to open the respective documentation ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Ahmed Hamed
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Whiteboard: target:25.2.0
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Blocks: 92416
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Reported: 2024-06-12 16:57 UTC by Ahmed Hamed
Modified: 2024-08-13 13:15 UTC (History)
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Description Ahmed Hamed 2024-06-12 16:57:28 UTC
Description:
This is a new feature that can be added to the function panel. There is no direct to way to go to the wiki of a function, so it will be so much better if a help button is added, which can go to the proper wiki according to the selected function.

Actual Results:
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Expected Results:
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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 342670dc6b0fc5b93a40b9cf86b8cca67fac88a3
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 ady 2024-06-12 23:17:11 UTC
If I may ask (and please forgive my ignorance)... What's wrong with using the normal Help content for Calc functions? Why (links to) the wiki should be added for help within Calc?

FWIW, the wiki is not the same as official Help Content. For each Calc function, sometimes it helps, but it is not always the case. Moreover, since each wiki page is modified by different users, the quality of each wiki page is not always adequate, especially regarding translated wiki pages.

IMHO, if you want to provide links (or similar) within Calc, they should always link to official Help Content, not to TDF wiki pages.
Comment 2 Ahmed Hamed 2024-06-12 23:44:58 UTC
You are right; I failed to properly express what I intended to do. The link should indeed be to the official Help Content. Thanks for the clarification :)
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2024-07-12 08:52:15 UTC
AhmedHamed committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/f5685bdfff370be57cf37f1dc746026c6bfd6113

tdf#161534 Add a Help button in FD & FW to open respective Help documentation

It will be available in 25.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 4 Andreas Heinisch 2024-08-13 13:15:45 UTC
Found a small issue today. If you modify the size of the function wizard window the help button will be increased, but the list of functions should be resized and the help button should be the same imho.