Dusty,
Please send me a copy when you finish doing your help files. Thanks
Raymond
----- Original Message -----
From: ## Dusty Carden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Help Section
> I will see if I can drag up the stuff I did on this. Got it
> almost done then had to take a break for a while to fix
> other things. But here is basically what I did.
>
> Wrote individual help files for each screen in Imail that a
> user would encounter. These were simply small html
> files.
>
> I then called them with that bothersome javascript I posted
> here a couple of weeks ago. Forgive me folks for repeating
> this. Looks like this:
>
> <notes>
> This goes within the head of the Imail template page]
> MAKE SURE that the line window.open is not wrapped
> when you insert it in your page. I work in notepad so
> I forget to mention this
> </notes>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> <!--
> function helpcont(){
> window.name="mailhelp";
> self.name="main";
>
window.open("help/addbook.htm","helppop","width=190,height=320,directories=n
> o,toolbar=no,resizable=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no");
> }
> // -->
> </script>
>
> >>>Call the help file with a link like this:
>
> <A HREF="javascript:helpcont()">Help On This Topic</A>
>
> >>>Put a close link file on the help page something like this
>
> <A HREF="javascript:self.close()">Close This Window</A>
>
> In the above example there is a help file named addbook.htm in the
> web/help folder. User clicks on the link and it pops up a 190 X 320 pixel
> window with help on using the address book. Make the file brief
> so it fits. Or turn on the scrollbar for them with scrollbars=yes.
> And make sure you put the close link file there also.
>
> Question:
> So what if they do not close the link and they click another help file
> on another page?
> Answer:
> Hey, it will replace the contents of the previous
> help window if you leave the "helppop" the same throughout.
>
> Question:
> You sent me this stupid script last already and calling it again
> makes the contents appear in the main screen?
> Answer:
> The "helppop" is the ticket that does this. If your original script
> uses "downpop" as my previous example showed, then just use
> "helppop" in this one. You can manipulate as many windows
> as you like on the users screen. Sort of like those annoying pop
> up sex sites. <g>
>
> Dusty
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Zimpfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 8:08 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Help Section
>
>
> > Has anyone implemented a help section from within Imail for their users?
> If
> > so what information did you include? How did you maintain the login
> > sessions while they were viewing your help?
> >
> > Scott Zimpfer
> >
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