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Bug 356435 - [Help][Context] ability to specifiy web
Summary: [Help][Context] ability to specifiy web
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: User Assistance (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: platform-ua-inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-09-01 02:24 EDT by Miwako Tokugawa CLA
Modified: 2011-09-02 23:55 EDT (History)
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Description Miwako Tokugawa CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2011-09-02 23:54:45 EDT 
Yes, that is what I'm looking for. Thanks.