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Bug 356435

Summary:	[Help][Context] ability to specifiy web
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Miwako Tokugawa <miwako.tokugawa>
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	cgold
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Miwako Tokugawa

2011-09-01 02:24:52 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.7

It would be very nice if the topic href in the context file can take a real URL so that such can be published on the web.
<context id ="projects_view">
   <description>Click below to see help.</description>
   <topic href="reference/cdt_u_cproj_view.htm"
        label="C/C++ Projects view"/>
</context>

<extension
         point="org.eclipse.help.contexts">
      <contexts
            file="contexts_CDT.xml"
            plugin="org.eclipse.cdt.ui">
      </contexts>

Contexts_CDT.xml exists in the same directory providing



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Chris Goldthorpe

2011-09-02 13:40:08 EDT

Context help can have links to web addresses, for example the contexts.xml file below has a link to eclipse.org. Is this what you were looking for?

<contexts>
	<context id="viewer" title="Sample View">
		<description>This is the context help for the sample view with a table viewer. It was generated by a PDE template.</description>
		<topic href="http://www.eclipse.org" label="Context-sensitive help">
		</topic>
	</context>
</contexts>

Comment 2 Miwako Tokugawa

2011-09-02 23:54:45 EDT

Yes, that is what I'm looking for. Thanks.