[chirp_users] Beginner's Guide question

[Andrew Errington]

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Andrew

On 26 November 2013 07:51, David Miller <david.miller at bhlministries.org> wrote:
> please delete my adress from all chirp-users adress
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> 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
>>
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>> 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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