[Koha-bugs] [Bug 18472] Add system preferences to manage online help system

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18472

--- Comment #21 from Marc Véron <veron at veron.ch> ---
(In reply to Marcel de Rooy from comment #20)
> (In reply to Jonathan Druart from comment #19)
> > I personally do not think it is a good idea, I'd like to get other QAers
> > point of view.
> 
> At first glance, I would think so too. But I did not study all code changes.
> 
> Marc: Could you convince the QA team why this is a good idea? What is the
> impact on the news module itself?


Need:
- Having a user editable, page aware help system is a long outstanding need.
First time I was asked for goes back to 2012.
- We have libraries interested in Koha who ask for in their requirements.
- Writing a brand new help module would take a lot of time. And who would fund
it?

User:
- The news system works very well and libraries are used to use it. The help
additons introduced in Bug 18483 enhances the news system to host custom help
as well.
- From a user standpoint it is easy to use, you can add whatever you want /
need as help. All the benefits of the news system can be used. Custom help
items can easyly be added / edited. 
- It can turned on and off (combined with the existing file based help system
or 'standalone'). This Bug 18472 is the basis for turning on and off and/or add
additional help systems. 
- There is no change in behavior of news and file based help system if turned
off (however this patch allows to turn off the edit function of the existing
file based help system).

Impact:
- In Bug 18483, I paid great attention to have a minimal impact on existing
code. No changes in .pm files were needed. 
- There is a small database change to have a field to host the page key if a
news item is used as help item.

Things to come:
- Since the news system works for both staff client and OPAC it will be easy to
implement the editable help for OPAC as well (Bug 18515)

So I kindly ask for Bug 18472 and Bug 18483 to make part of Koha.

Marc

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