GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 605991
Help button on New and Edit Job dialogs brings up wrong help page
Last modified: 2018-06-29 22:32:42 UTC
Build 2.3.8 tarball on Fedora Core 12. I brought up the New Job dialog, and didn't know what the Billing ID meant. So I pressed the help button. The help page displayed was titled "Account Tab Display", and the section visible was "4.2.1.5 Account Tree - Business Menu". There was no mention of Billing ID anywhere. It looks like the wrong help page. (Aside - is it supposed to be the Customer PO number? why not label it "PO Number"? No bookkeeper or accountant has ever used the term "Billing ID", as far as I know. Should I file that as an bug?)
There's a section about Customer jobs in the Guide (section 12.7) and a section about Vendor Jobs in section 13.6. Both of these specific sections are written like a good help file, without a lot of "tutorialish" examples. They just list the different fields and explain their meaning. I propose moving these sections into the help and then linking the "New Job" dialog into the appropriate section of the help. I also suggest a few small updates: * "you must create them using the Business → Customer → New Job application" Change "application" to "menu item" * For Job Number, link to Book options where it explains how counters are used in the business module. * Owner Info - Customer: The link would have to be changed, since it points to the guide, and we can't link across the two documents. * Clarify a few paragraphs later that Billing ID is also optional.
PO means purchase order? That should at least be mentioned in a translator comment.
A fix for this bug is in revision 23705. After moving most part of A/P and A/R documentation from the guide in a new section called "Business features" in the help, I linked the Help buttons to this new chapter. I'm aware that some text is missing (f.e. for employees) and that some tweaking is needed [1] but if there are no objections I'll close this bug in a couple of days. [1] http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2014-January/036886.html
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