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Bug 107672

Summary: [Help] Provide ability to supplement/add to default Help System webapp without having to replace the whole thing
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Lee Anne Kowalski <kowalskilee>
Component: User AssistanceAssignee: platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:

Description Lee Anne Kowalski CLA 2005-08-22 16:52:48 EDT 
The Eclipse *Workbench* UI itself is very easy to extend and add to due to its
underlying technology.

In contrast, adopters cannot make additions to the Help System webapp to extend
or supplement its functionality for particular installation scenarios; for
example, to add a toolbar icon or add a new tabbed view. Adopters can replace
with their own webapp code plugins of course, but that seems a drastic route if
all they want to do is add some functionality for their particular situation and
extend what is already there.

What is requested is the ability to easily supplement the help system webapp. At
a minimum, to add buttons along with the standard buttons and add new views for
the tabbed view. Extension points to extend.

--Lee Anne Kowalski
IBM User Assistance Technologies
Comment 1 Lee Anne Kowalski CLA 2009-08-10 20:57:21 EDT 
"Adding a new tabbed view" is now covered in bug 286177.

As that was the more desired request in this bug (vs the adding new toolbar buttons), and as the reporter for this enhancement request, I'm marking this one as a duplicate of 286177. No need to keep this one open now.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 286177 ***