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| <h1 align='center' style='text-align:center'>User Assistance Plan |
| for Eclipse 3.6</h1> |
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| <p>By Chris Goldthorpe, IBM. Last revised 09/21/2009 </p> |
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| <h2>Background</h2> |
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| <p>All of the feature requests for Eclipse 3.6 can be found in Bugzilla. Below is a summary of the planned new features |
| together with a link to the corresponding Bugzilla |
| entry which contains more information. </p> |
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| <h3>Milestone 1 08/07/2009</h3> |
| <p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=107623"> |
| [Webapp] Help system webapp: Provide footer area like banner area (persistent, across browser window, optional) |
| </a><br/> |
| Allow a footer to be added to the help webapp by setting a customization property. |
| This has been requested to allow copyright information to be displayed at the bottom |
| of the help frames. |
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| <p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=38052"> |
| [Help] Add alphabetical ordering attribute to TOC DTD |
| </a><br/> |
| This allows anchor nodes in the table of contents to have their children sorted alphabetically. |
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| <h3>Milestone 2 09/18/2009</h3> |
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| <p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=190467"> |
| Add child links to topics with content at runtime.</a> |
| <br/>Allows elements in the table of content which are anchors to contain |
| hyperlinks to each of their children. |
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| <h3>Milestone 3 10/30/2009</h3> |
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| enhancements will allow additional UI elements to be added to the help |
| webapp. |
| <p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=286177"> |
| [Webapp] Allow additional views to be added to the help webapp</a> |
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| <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=286182"> |
| [Webapp] Allow additional frame(s) below content frame</a> |
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| <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=287712"> |
| [Webapp] Allow additional buttons to be added to the help webapp.</a> |
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| The next three enhancements will make it easier to create UA content. |
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| <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=278290"> |
| [Intro] Make the RSS news reader reusable |
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| <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=281145"> |
| Mechanism for publishing internal resources of cheatsheet plugin |
| </a><br/> |
| <a href ="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280357"> |
| Additional help / debugging for CSH issues |
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| <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280459"> |
| Help system - Remote UA - Network error handling |
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| <h3>Milestone 4 12/11/2009</h3> |
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| <p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=227198"> |
| [Help] Cannot change font size in help view (Windows or Macintosh) |
| </a></p> |
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| <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280354"> |
| Remote UA: What to do when local and remote plug-ins are both present |
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| <h3>Milestone 5 01/29/2010</h3> |
| <p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=281146"> |
| [Help][Index] See references added to the keyword index |
| </a><br/> |
| The keyword index in Eclipse is missing a standard feature of an index, the |
| ability to display synonyms as links to another keyword. |
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| <h3>Milestone 6 (API Freeze) 03/12/2010</h3> |
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