[v9.0.0rc4] Contextual help on dashboard pages

[Mesuva]

Has the previous version of adding contextual help to a dashboard pages been changed or removed?

E.g. this kind of customisable information (the blue bit)

[aembler]

Yes, that's all there – we found people didn't understand the blue question mark so we've moved it into a dedicated help panel:

[Mesuva]

I just tested this and my custom content didn't show, hence my question.

[aembler]

Huh, that's strange, we haven't changed it otherwise. how are you specifyign the content?

[Mesuva]

It's in my Add Multiple Pages add-on. I haven't changed the way it includes it. https://github.com/Mesuva/msv_add_multiple_pages/blob/master/single_pages/dashboard/sitemap/add_multiple_pages.php

[Mesuva]

To get this to work in v9, I had to register the help content in the package's on_start.
So it's still working, but it appears the previous way is now deprecated and defunct.
Registering it in the page controller or page template doesn't appear to work, as I think it's too late.
So I'm doing this:

 public function on_start() {
        app()->make('help/dashboard')->registerMessageString('/dashboard/sitemap/add_multiple_pages','<strong>'.t('Nested Pages').'</strong><br />....etc'
        );
    }
    

[aembler]

Oh, interesting. Yes, I could see this being the case if the panel has already rendered its contents by the time the inner content of the page is processed?

[Mesuva]

I don't see any real issue with this change being in V9, it won't break anything as such.
It might just be a case of the doco needing to reflect the new requirements.
The main thing I discovered was how the original class handling this has been deprecated, and really only has stubs left:
https://github.com/concrete5/concrete5/blob/9.0rc/concrete/src/Application/Service/UserInterface/Help.php

[aembler]

I will update the version 9 release notes backward compatibility section with a note about this.