add forum links within freecad with error messages?

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rek
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add forum links within freecad with error messages?

Post by rek »

hi,

what if the most common 'syntax error' messages in freecad had links to forum posts that cleanly and neatly solved the most common end-user mistakes which would tend to create that error?

maybe it exists already in which case "great minds think alike" or "d'oh i need to learn how to read"

but just thinking out loud here hope its alright.
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Re: add forum links within freecad with error messages?

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rek wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 1:09 pm hi,

what if the most common 'syntax error' messages in freecad had links to forum posts that cleanly and neatly solved the most common end-user mistakes which would tend to create that error?

maybe it exists already in which case "great minds think alike" or "d'oh i need to learn how to read"

but just thinking out loud here hope its alright.
I would think links to appropriate wiki pages would be more apropos and more likely to have "cleanly and neatly solved the most common end-user mistakes" information.
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Re: add forum links within freecad with error messages?

Post by GeneFC »

I think adding something like that to the code would be close to impossible. There is no synchronism between what is on the forum/wiki with code releases. The forum is essentially uncontrolled, and the wiki is easily changed as well.

The best solutions change with time.

A generic "see the documentation" would be more or less useless and probably quite annoying.
rek wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 1:09 pm just thinking out loud here hope its alright.
That is what the forum is for.

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Re: add forum links within freecad with error messages?

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Could you give us some examples?
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