[chirp_users] Beginner's Guide question

[David Miller]

please delete my adress from all chirp-users adress


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Mike Agner <ka3jjz at comcast.net> wrote:

> Actually Bob that's really 2 separate issues. I'll let the CHIRP
> developers comment on putting context (by radio) help into the
> software.  That's a long way off in any case - the wiki has to be
> greatly enhanced, first, before that could even be considered. It does
> make sense to me, however.
>
> What I was referring to was the way each radio in the wiki would link to
> the pool of pages. A simple example would be a radio that updates in
> live mode (and we just saw such an example recently on this list).  We
> would have 1 page (or 1 set of pages) each for uploading, downloading
> and editing a radio's template (image file). Now if that radio was a
> live mode one, you don't upload data to it, so the uploading page would
> not be linked. It would only have links to downloading and editing.
> There would have to be a note on that radio's page that it was a live
> mode radio, and that you would need to do a CSV export to save the data
> you uploaded.
>
> Another simple example would be if because of some limitation, CHIRP
> could not import EVE files for a particular radio. Then in the list of
> import formats on that radio's page, the EVE page would not be linked.
>
> This is what is meant by selecting pages to be linked from a common
> pool. If a particular function isn't available for some reason, there
> should be no link to it.
>
> Mike
>
> ==============================================================================================================
> On Sat, Robert Terzi wrote:
>  >/Once all that is done, then each model of radio can point to the
> page(s) />/that apply to it, and ignore those that don't.
> /I'm not sure if you are just talking about the organization of the wiki
> pages, or links from the radio specific (driver) code to launch the
> correct page on the wiki. However, the later is something I've thought
> about a little, but never suggested because I didn't think there would
> be enough critical mass in documentation. It could be helpful if from
> Chirp there was the possibility to launch a radio specific web page on
> the wiki for help: - before starting the download from radio - before
> starting the upload to the radio - after a download or upload has failed
> for troubleshooting advice The help menu should also have an entry to
> launch the radio specific wiki help page. This means there should be a
> little planning in how the wiki pages are named. There should be (some)
> correlation to the radio driver since it will have to generate the URL.
> The radio specific pages on the wiki should be in their own name space.
> I don't know what redmine's capabilities are, the "name space" could be
> as simple as prepending a prefix like "Radio-" for all of the radio
> specific help template pages. The rationale for this that I believe many
> people will attempt to use the software before looking for or reading
> any documentation. --Rob
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