Updating Advanced help in e-Commerce

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Posted by gordon on March 31, 2009 at 11:38am

I just saw this module http://drupal.org/project/helpinject floating across the twitter timeline and was quite interested. Basically it allows you to import documentation from Advanced help and then export it back.

This perked my interest esp since I need to write a lot of documentation for advanced help to make it a lot more useful in e-Commerce for the final release.

Using this module I would be able to crowd source a lot of this inline documentation to other people who would like to see more information about different functions within e-Commerce.

This is however a 6.x only module, and luckily I am in the of upgrading http://drupalecommerce.org to 6.x so I am thing very seriously about adding in this module so people can easlily update the documentation that is contained within the e-Commerce modules.

With this I am planning to also add the public api's so that people writing code can find is much easier.

Please leave comments if you think this is a good idea or not. I am hoping to upgrade it all this weekend if I cn get around the menu upgrade problem.

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Good idea - yes!

Posted by burningdog on April 15, 2009 at 9:43am
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Crowd-sourcing documentation for e-Commerce is a great idea - if there's an easy way to simplify the documentation contribution workflow then perhaps more people will do it.

Let me know what you need

Posted by robertdouglass on April 25, 2009 at 10:31pm
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This is exactly the use case that helpinject is supposed to fulfill. Let me know what you need in terms of module development for helpinject to make your effort successful.

Thanks Robert, I have

Posted by gordon on April 27, 2009 at 1:42pm
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Thanks Robert, I have started setting up a new site at http://help.drupalecommerce.org to allow the development of all the help pages withing the system.

I am getting close to anouncing it and getting people to help.

Thanks if I have any problems I will contact you.

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Update?

Posted by burningdog on May 25, 2009 at 8:20pm
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Any progress on this, gordon? e-Commerce has inline documentation, the api at drupalecommerce.org, the e-Commerce handbook page (mainly for 3.x), as well as http://drupalecommerce.org/documentation - is there any plan to integrate all of this into one place?

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