Super Duper Critical misssssssing feature
By Alexandre Cayer on Saturday, 22 November 2014
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Hi Guys,

I just check the infamous Facebook today and realize we were missing one uber-important feature... the help menu ! Can customize to add a link to ticket system, or ED, or a howto or I don't know what... a tour feature, a conversation to support... well you got the point. We need an easy trigger to an help feature. Here is my suggestion.

Yes i know you guys are busy. Maybe not introduce a full-fledge customize help menu (or yes if you got time ) however at least a pretty basic step that we can improve towards a next version.

EDIT: An easy solution to start with, just load a MENU created by the user into the tinyscrollbar or the popover. One feature, customization by all.
Can't disagree with this one. Much more important in my opinion is the usage of Joomla's menus so that admins can customize the links exactly how they want it. Kunena perfected this pretty well. Because I use my own menu's and use ES's modules instead of the top tool bar this isn't a problem for me. But I know this would help a lot of other folks which is why I support the idea.
Josh Lewis
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Saturday, 22 November 2014 10:40
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Hm, not really sure what does "help" do? Does it link to an article on your site or?
Mark
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Saturday, 22 November 2014 16:43
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If a help button was added, it would be better to have an option field that allowed you to place in a custom url. Articles work for myself and many others, but some folks use extensions like EasyBlog and FAQ extensions.
Josh Lewis
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Saturday, 22 November 2014 17:17
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Ah I see but wouldn't that be easier to do this in custom template overrides?
Mark
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Saturday, 22 November 2014 17:24
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Hey Mark,

The point is, if anyone could load its one menu module, anyone could do anything. Right now, the script loading the bubbles are outside of the view or template... it would be a nightmare do override it without just having it do something. Also, the user could either setup the help for the whole site or for the specific of the component. All sites have some kind of help... hope you could enforce any kind of help support.

Alex
Alexandre Cayer
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Wednesday, 03 December 2014 02:35
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@Alexandre a Tour Module from JoomlaFORCE looks interesting. I've only run their demo in the link above and checked out their listing at Joomla.org. They have apparently added some pre-configured steps for doing a tour of EasySocial but again, I haven't seen it.

Anyone else have experience with this module or JoomlaFORCE?
Kevin
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Wednesday, 03 December 2014 03:25
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Thanks for the heads up on this Alexandre but I really do think that having it in a custom html module or template override would make more sense.
Mark
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Thursday, 04 December 2014 02:05
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