Issue 122175

Summary:	[sidebar] missing Help integration
Product:	General	Reporter:	Rob Weir <robweir>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	arielch, issues, orw, pescetti, rb.henschel
Version:	4.0.0-dev
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---
Issue Depends on:
Issue Blocks:	122364

Description Rob Weir 2013-04-26 20:09:36 UTC

Testing done with r1466899 on Windows 7.

1) Load Writer.   

2) In the Text Properties panel of the sidebar, click into a control, like the font size edit control.  Then hit the F1 key.

3) Help file is loaded and displays the root help page.  It should be showing a specific help topic related to the active window, e.g., on setting font size.

Some panel items, like Gallery and Styles & Properties bring up specific help topics.  But the new panels in 4.0 do no.

Workaround: User would need to search for a specific help topic in the help file.

Comment 1 Ariel Constenla-Haile 2013-04-27 03:47:11 UTC

Adapting summary.

Comment 2 Ariel Constenla-Haile 2013-04-27 03:54:55 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Testing done with r1466899 on Windows 7.
> 
> 1) Load Writer.   
> 
> 2) In the Text Properties panel of the sidebar, click into a control, like
> the font size edit control.  Then hit the F1 key.

This example can be applied also to the standard toolbars, not only the toolboxes in the sidebar:

- put the cursor in the Font Size control in the formatting toolbar
- press F1
- the default page for the current module is displayed in the Help

This is a bug in the underlying toolbar implementation: when help is requested, the request is forwarded to the base class, instead of triggering help for the current toolbar item (this behavior is inconsistent with the menus: F1 on a menu item opens the Help bound to the menu item UNO command).

Comment 3 Regina Henschel 2013-05-14 22:10:51 UTC

I do not think, that this is a special problem of the sidebar, but a general problem how F1 works. Already in OOo1.1 the F1-key had worked this way. Remove sidebar tag?

Comment 4 Ariel Constenla-Haile 2013-05-14 22:30:06 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> I do not think, that this is a special problem of the sidebar, but a general
> problem how F1 works. Already in OOo1.1 the F1-key had worked this way.
> Remove sidebar tag?

The way Rob described the bug seems to indicate this issue is about F1, but in fact this comes from a discussion in dev@ pointing to the missing help integration, see http://markmail.org/message/vipcif3hurfpvrdg