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Bug 80139

Summary:	[Intro] [plan item] Initial user experience improvements
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	Mazen Faraj <mfaraj>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P1	CC:	nikolaymetchev
Version:	3.0	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	3.1 M7
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	84820, 87870
Bug Blocks:

Description Jim des Rivieres

2004-12-03 14:26:02 EST

Support for Welcome content will be enhanced by a number of improvements: 
authoring of welcome content will be made easier by providing easy preview of 
the resulting pages when all the content is composed; whenever possible, help 
documents will be shown in place to reduce the need to leave the Welcome 
context; transition to workbench will be made less abrupt with various degrees 
of welcome still present for the user to return; support for welcome in 
sophisticated stacked products will be enhanced. [Platform UI]

Comment 1 Mazen Faraj

2005-03-13 04:16:16 EST

This enhancement is big for one feature. 
Splitting out two issues, for now:
1) Enhance usability of authoring intro pages. bug 87870 
2) support for welcome in sophisticated stacked products will be enhanced. bug 
84820

Comment 2 Mazen Faraj

2005-03-28 17:07:07 EST

3) whenever possible, help documents will be shown in place to reduce the need 
to leave the Welcome context;  bug 89297

Comment 3 Mazen Faraj

2005-03-30 21:38:03 EST

full feature will be complete by M7

Comment 4 Mazen Faraj

2005-05-12 04:08:08 EDT

More enhancements:
1) Added enhanced support for embedding Help documents in Welcome pages. 
showHelp Intro URL now can specify a targetDiv where the help document will be 
embedded, instead of embedding in the full Intro page. 

2) Added support for HTML presentation on Linux and Mac.

Comment 5 Mazen Faraj

2005-05-12 16:43:09 EDT

The one remaining item: 
"authoring of welcome content will be made easier by providing easy preview of 
the resulting pages when all the content is composed;" 

opened bug : Intro preview bug 94904  to track. 
Dropped from 3.1 plan. 
Revisit post 3.1

Closing this defect.