Bunch of TechDraw pages don't have the correct name

[ulrich1a]

Is this an old one? It talks about Sourceforge accounts and doesn't have Path or TechDraw.

The helpfile is generated from the wiki-pages and includes what is in the wiki-pages. I have installed the published help file and it has TechDraw and Path.

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Installing a new help file to an existing FreeCAD requires to open the help and deinstalling first the old help-file. The required dialog is in the help-assistant edit/preferences:

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After removing close the preference dialog and open it again. Now add the new helpfile.

Ulrich

[wandererfan]

When using the "What's this?" tool on a tool, it should open the help file with the proper page.

Not happening until v0.18, I guess. https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/1348

[wandererfan]

After removing close the preference dialog and open it again. Now add the new helpfile.

Thanks. I can get the new file in QtAssistant now, but my "WhatsThis" tags don't seem to work.

[NormandC]

I don't agree with wmayer on this. This means we'll ship a broken Help assistant with 0.17.

[wandererfan]

Got it working. My steps:
- remove "org.freecad.usermanual" in Help>Help>QtAssistant>Edit>Preferences>Documentation
- shutdown FC
- move new *.qch, *.qhc to buildDir/doc
- restart FC
- add the *.qch file in Help>Help>QtAssistant>Edit>Preferences>Documentation

Right Help, right What'sThis. All good.

[Kunda1]

I don't agree with wmayer on this. This means we'll ship a broken Help assistant with 0.17.

I agree.

[NormandC]

I commented the PR. I believe git commit 898cafd7 can be merged without affecting translations.

[triplus]

Note that WhatsThis support in FreeCAD was inherently broken. Wrong command names set compared to what was on the Wiki, things like Python based commands where using tooltip information instead (code needed to change) ... A lot of this got resolved in FreeCAD 0.17 development cycle. FreeCAD 0.17 will therefore be the first release having a decent level of WhatsThis support. I wouldn't worry about it too much if it will not be at 100%. It will still be much better then it ever was.

If there is any interest (due to the WhatsThis revolution as seen in FreeCAD 0.17 development cycle) i can invest a bit of effort and make a small and simple GUI tool. Where inspecting WhatsThis information for FreeCAD commands should i guess be a bit easier.

[ulrich1a]

I commented the PR. I believe git commit 898cafd7 can be merged without affecting translations.

The reason may be that it could be difficult to merge the all the ts-file now at crowdin, if an additional translation string will be added. Then the ts-files at crowdin and those in the sources have different numbers of strings to be translated.

I would ask to split the PR into one that has only the changes regarding the

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sWhatsThis 

. This can be merged without affecting the translation. The rest has to wait then.

Ulrich

[NormandC]

That's what I meant by only merging git commit 898cafd7... It's the one which has only the sWhatsThis changes.