HelpBlocks Mass Image Import Feature Request

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HelpBlocks Mass Image Import Feature Request
	2006-02-15 09:24:48
Roger Binns wrote: > Is this a one time export type of thing?  I would love to be able to > author all the help content in MediaWiki and then press a button > to feed it into HelpBlocks.  That would require continuous exports > from MediaWiki. The script took me about 4 days total to write up from scratch and is in full working order with all the features I needed for all the wiki markup we plan on ever using to publish help. Anytime changes are made to the content in the wiki, the script takes less than a minute to generate entirely new, clean htb files using the MediaWiki export tool (meaning no dependancy on the database, it could be run to grab pages on any public wiki), export all images, then it's just a matter of copying over the htb and image files, adding/removing pages from the HelpBlocks project itself (which could be scripted up at some point, but its rare that you need to make page changes), and generating the new help from within HelpBlocks with one click. It's now become a small simple step in our release cycle and helps out immensly with keeping up-to-date program documentation on a big program like ours. Keeping the help content in a MediaWiki installation allows for easier change tracking, and gives others the ability to write, fix, and clean up existing help without needing a copy of HelpBlocks or knowing HTML. The first point wasn't important since we keep almost everything we work on in SVN repositories anyway, but the second is extremely nice. > On a seperate note, I have written code that can be fed the HelpBlocks > produced .htb file and it will webify it for you.  You can see an > example of the result at http://www.bitpim.org/help/ Alternate output types could be added into the script with little effort which was the other reason I coded it up. It doesn't do anything other than HelpBlocks output right now, but we plan to use it to generate online docs and other formats like PDF (if PDF from HelpBlocks monolithic source doesn't quite work out). Being that this was all coded up on company time, I'd need to clear it for release, and I can't promise anything, sorry. -- Bryan Petty Phoenix Project Management Systems http://www.phoenixcpm.com/