Web help for dialog boxes

Subject: Web help for dialog boxes
From: Ken Stitzel <kstitzel -at- symplified -dot- com>
To: Tech Whirl <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:30:33 -0700

Happy Friday, Whirlers!

Here's a how-de-do*: I keep getting bugs from my QA department because our
web help doesn't let someone open a help topic for a specific dialog box.
(It's fine to open help topics for specific pages of our web applications,
but not for dialogs opened from those web pages.

As I understand it, however, web help plain and simple cannot do this (open
help at the dialog level). Is this true? Am I wrong? Is there a
specification where this is spelled out? I'd appreciate any pointers you
have. It would help me get QA off my back! (They've got plenty of other
reasons to jump on me, anyway. :)

Thanks,

Ken


* Gratuitous Gilbert and Sullivan reference:
http://www.lyricshosting.com/artists/07/gilbert_and_sullivan/heres_a_howdedo.html

*Kendal Stitzel*
*Sr. Technical Writer
*
mobile: 970.214.8279
office: 303.318.4188
kstitzel -at- symplified -dot- com <email-address -at- symplified -dot- com>
*
*
*Symplified* *The Cloud Identity Company*
* www.symplified.com*

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