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By jackmullaney on
Is there any way to find help for an admin form page, other that searching the forums for possible keywords?
For example, at Admin > Site Configuration > Site Information, I find an entry for 'Slogan' with the ?helpful? note 'often displayed alongside the Title of the Site' - so where would one find when and where such information is displayed?
Now, please don't tell me the answer to that last question - it was an example. The real question is: How do you, in general, find full information about the effect of the admin entries?
Comments
The Drupal handbooks
I'll say this right up front: You probably won't like this answer. The built-in online help Drupal has is very limited in some places. This particular page happens to be one of them. The help cannot possibly tell you where (ore even if) anything is going to be displayed on the screen for a couple reasons: 1 - Modules have the ability to override core functionality. 2 - Different themes display things in different places and may or may not display all items that have a setting on the system configuration pages.
Having said that, I think the handbooks are a great resource for beginners. Remember that Drupal is an Open Source project and if you would like to improve it by adding better help descriptions you are free to submit your contributions!