I am rewriting the Help module and am doing it TDD style.  As I was writing a test to check the adding of a tutorial to the db I realised that what I really wanted to do was not only add the tutorial but also the list of associated category IDs.  So I did a bit of research and came up with this.  There is now a new parameter on the Help_AddTutorial sproc that takes an xml field.  The XML is a list of the categories.  The XML is then parsed and added to a temporary table which is then used to add the multiple...

Two things.

1. Version 3.0.2 will be packaged and entered into the tracker tonight.
2. Version 4.0.0 is under way.  The skeleton project with the testing framework has been checked into Vault and work has started on the automated test framework as well.

Cheers

Last night I completed
HLP-4206 - Module Content Disappears
HLP-5258 - ISearchable
HLP-3907 - Set Short Description box height higher to accommodate FCK Editor
HLP-5034 - Default Root Image Path
HLP-4713 - Help_SearchTutorials is missing in the DB
HLP-4209 - Error in project set up

After a couple of false starts through the release process I am glad to say that the Help 03.00.01 has been officially released and you can download from here.

The release process picked up 2 issues that would have been a hassle to support after release but were nice easy fixes before release.  The process works very well.

Enjoy.

Fantastic news.  The new Help System is now live and kicking on the site.  Check it out at http://www.dotnetnuke.com/About/DotNetNukeOnlineHelp/tabid/787/TID/241/cid/3/Default.aspx and if you want to go directly to a chapter you can use URLs like http://www.dotnetnuke.com/About/DotNetNukeOnlineHelp/tabid/787/TID/241/cid/3/Default.aspx?helpmodule=Announcements....

Now that the PDC is over we can get down to business again.  I have released the first version of the online help system to the core.  Scott Willhite is currently installing it on the staging server before deploying it here on DotNetNuke.

I managed to get all of the requirements for version 1 completed and have also added the ExportToHTML feature which currently exports all the content of the system into a HTML file.  I use the level of the chapter to decide the size of the heading.  This way you get a nicely formatted HTML doc at the end that Lorraine wuse to create the pdf version of the help.

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