Difference between revisions of "Application Help Tab"

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An application help tab gives application users a tab they can click on to get information instructions, or answers to frequently asked questions.

To create an application Help tab:

Go to > Developer Resources > Pages and create a JSP page.
Be sure to turn off headers on the page you create.
With headers on, jQuery and other platform features become available--but links fail.

When off, you have a normal HTML page--and links work.
> Developer Resources > Web Tabs and create a new tab from that page.
If needed, go to > Preferences > Tab Preferences and specify which Roles can see the tab.
(By default, it is available to all. Use this option to selectively turn it off.)

Sample: Self-Contained Help Page

This sample help page is derived from Brainstorm--an application built on the AgileApps Cloud platform that allows customers to file requests for features they would like to see.

Important:
When make sure that HEADER FILES are OFF when creating the file.
With headers on, JSP tags are available, but links don't work. Turning them off creates a vanilla HTML page.
Learn more: Pages#About Header Files

The resulting page looks like this:

Here is the code:

<html>
<!-- 
  When creating the JSP file, make sure HEADERS ARE OFF.
  (With headers on, JSP tags are available, but links do not work.
   Turning them off creates a vanilla HTML page.)
  -->
<head>
  <style>
    heading
    { 
     font-weight: bold;
     font-size: 3em;
    }
    a.rightAlign
    {
     font-size: .8em;
     position: absolute;
     right: 0px;
     width: 10%;
    }
    a.top
    {
     font-size: .7em; 
    }
    p.links
    {
     font-size: .8em;
     //text-align: center;
                line-height: 2;      
    }
    p.question
    {   
     font-weight: bold;
     font-size: 1em;
    }
    p.answer, li
    {     
      font-size: .8em;
    }
    body
    {
     font-family: arial;
     margin-left: 10px;  
                 margin-right: 10px;
    }
  </style>  
</head>

<body>     
  <heading>FAQ</heading>
  <a id = "pagetop" class = "rightAlign" href="#moreinfo">Contact Us</a> 
  <hr>
    </br></br>
    
  <p class = "links">
    <a href="#whatisapp">What this app?</a></br>
     <a href="#more info">Is more info available</a></br></br></br>
  <hr>
  </p>  
    
  <p class = "question">
     <a id="whatisapp">What is this app? </a>
     <a class = "top" href="#pagetop">[top]</a>
  </p>
  <p class = "answer">
    This app is...
  </p>

  <p class = "question">
     <a id="more info">Is more info available? </a>
     <a class = "top" href="#pagetop">[top]</a>
  </p>
  <p class = "answer">
    Yes, you can send any queries or suggestions to <a href="MAILTO:someaddress@somecompany.com">someaddress@somecompany.com</a>.
  </p>
</body>
</html>

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Difference between revisions of "Application Help Tab"

Revision as of 18:33, 20 May 2015

Sample: Self-Contained Help Page

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 Here is the code:
-:<syntaxhighlight lang="java" enclose="div">
+:<syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict" enclose="div">
 <html>
 <!--
-   When creating this JSP file, make sure HEADERS ARE OFF.
+   When creating the JSP file, make sure HEADERS ARE OFF.
    (With headers on, JSP tags are available, but links do not work.
     Turning them off creates a vanilla HTML page.)