DocBook as OLE help - pdf, html, webhelp

1. Peri worked with Jeff to add the documents to SVN. See Developing Rice DocBook Documentation
   (Kuali OLE followed Rice and is currently using the DocBook 5 format for documentation and the docbkx-maven plugin to generate the documentation as part of our maven build.)
   The difference between OLE and Rice documentation is that OLE has decided to use Webhelp output for our documentation whereas Rice uses only HTML.  See the plugin documentation here: http://docbkx-tools.sourceforge.net/docbkx-maven-plugin/plugin-info.html.

2. Needed to change the image links.  <Inlinemediaobject> is for images that occur within text.  <screenshot><mediaobject> is for images that occur on their own line, separated from the text.
   Example:

   Code Block
   <inlinemediaobject> <alt>Location Level</alt> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="../images/DescribeNoTitlePage-178.png"/> </imageobject> </inlinemediaobject> Or <screenshot><mediaobject> <alt>Location Level Document</alt> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="../images/DescribeNoTitlePage-179.png" width="100%"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot>

3. Set up links to other webhelp space, link to the anchor like this:

   Code Block
   <link linkend:href="_searchingOLE">Searching OLE</link>

   This assumes that you have an anchor at the space

   Code Block
   <anchor xml:id="_searchingOLE"/>

4. Separated out the chapters into individual xml files and pasted the docbook document type declaration in the chapter element:

   Code Block
   <chapter xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en-US">

5. Created an index page

Additional steps for editing and committing documentation

• Need to complete a CLA (on the License Agreement Process (CLA/CCLA) wiki page)
• Have editing software - it is xml so you could use a simple text editor but with the images, Oxygen is recommended.
• Fork the project into your own GitHub repository and pull updates (see OLE development using Github)

• Once saved but before committing, you can view changes locally through the command line. 

1. 1. Enter your local OLE directory
      

      1. be sure it is up to date

      2. mvn clean install -DskipTests=true

   2. To test your updates, type "mvn clean pre-site -N". 

DocBook as PDF

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1. 1. To view the changes, open Windows Explorer or Finder and dig into the correct folder: your local OLE directory > target > site > reference > webhelp

DocBook as built-in help (webhelp)

Peri had to do some modifications to get the webhelp to display correctly.  We had to modify images and tables to get them to display correctly.  Webhelp pages are now linked with OLE.

See the plugin documentation: http://docbkx-tools.sourceforge.net/docbkx-maven-plugin/plugin-info.html