Add a Help Button and Help Topic
For custom Wires blocks that require more than simple tooltips for user assistance, you can also create an HTML page as a help topic and add this to the block properties form using the macro metadata element <help> within <block>. This adds a ? button to the properties form.
The button opens your help topic (HTML page) in a new window that is 550px wide, by default, but can be resized.
How you handle CSS and images for help topics depends on how this HTML page will be accessed:
Absolute URLs: the help topic HTML page, along with any CSS stylesheets and images must be hosted in a web server or application server that is accessible to the
MashZone NextGen Server. There are no special requirements for links to CSS or images.
Relative URLs: the help topic HTML page and
any images should be uploaded to
MashZone NextGen by a
MashZone NextGen administrator. You may also upload CSS stylesheets or simply define all classes in an internal <style> tag in the <head> element of the help topic HTML page.
With relative URLs, you refer to CSS or images using a URL in the form /mashzone/files/path/filename-assigned using the path and filename assigned in MashZone NextGen.
Create the HTML page for the help topic and either:
Deploy it, with any required resources in an appropriate web server or application server that accessible to the
MashZone NextGen Server.
Upload it, with any required resources, to
MashZone NextGen.
Then add a URL to <help> in <block>:
This example shows an absolute URL. If you have uploaded the help topic to MashZone NextGen, use a URL in the form /mashzone/files/path/help-topic-name.
