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Bug 205762

Summary:	No help associated with Form Templates
Product:	usersguide	Reporter:	asenk
Component:	Form	Assignee:	AlyonaStashkova
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	monezz
Priority:	P3
Version:	7.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:	208051
Bug Blocks:	205440

Description asenk 2011-12-01 09:55:01 UTC

Product Version: NetBeans IDE 7.1 RC2 (Build 201111292200)
Java: 1.7.0_02; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 22.0-b10
System: Linux version 3.0.0-13-generic-pae running on i386; UTF-8; en_US (nb)

1.Create new J2SE project
2.File->New File
3.Swing GUI Forms->JFrame Form
4.Next
5.Push Help Button

RESULT: No help is associated.

Requested help exists and is called:Creating a New Form, but is associated only with one template.

1.Create new J2SE project
2.File->New File
3.Swing GUI Forms->Bean Form
4.Next
5.Next
5.Push Help Button

You can see help page which should be associated with all Form Templates.

Comment 1 Kenneth Ganfield 2012-02-24 18:35:19 UTC

The Creating a New Form topic exists but is a TOC topic.
One option might be to create a csh topic for forms which links to the toc topic.
If that was done, then these new form wizards would need a help id. Could use one help id for all the wizards.

The other option would be to have no help ids for any of the forms and to not create a link to the New Form topic. This is what is done for most new file wizards.

Currently, the help buttons in all the new form wizards are disabled.
If we decide to do the second option then we can mark this issue as fixed.

Assigning to Alyona for evaluation.

Comment 2 AlyonaStashkova 2012-03-15 19:34:45 UTC

Voting for the second option.

Comment 3 Kenneth Ganfield 2012-05-17 10:54:48 UTC

*** Bug 205350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***