I have the latest version of Panels and Advanced Help installed. However, when I click on the Panels topics in Advanced Help, it says "Help topic missing." Help?

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drumnjo’s picture

Assigned: Unassigned » drumnjo
Category: support » bug
Priority: Normal » Critical

"I have the latest version of Panels and Advanced Help installed. However, when I click on the Panels topics in Advanced Help, it says "Help topic missing." Help?"

--I Have the same problem. 10/18 was the original query....any help?

merlinofchaos’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Try the Panels queue.

drumnjo’s picture

not sure what you mean, BUT the advanced help topics DO work for the "Views" topics......it didn't work for the other subjects such as "Panels"

traceelements’s picture

I still haven't figured this issue out. What is the Panels queue?

drumnjo’s picture

Status: Closed (won't fix) » Closed (fixed)

This may help:

Panels Documentation

kmhebert-returns’s picture

The Panels Documentation link is not very helpful at all actually. This is still an issue in Drupal 7, these links on the Panels advanced help page all link to "Missing Help topic"; they are tantalizing in that they seem like exactly what you'd want when getting started with Panels but there is nothing there. The documentation on this website is not a replacement for the advanced help. Any chance this will ever be updated?

About Panels
Accomplishing common tasks in Panels
Panels tutorials and how-tos
Creating a simple landing page
Styling a node page
Styling a vocabulary
Working with the Panels API
Creating content type plugins
Panels plugins
Layout plugins
Style plugins
Cache plugins
Display Renderer plugins
Panels-based applications
Mini panels
Panel nodes
Panel pages, via Page Manager
Panels glossary of terms

kmhebert-returns’s picture

Version: 6.x-1.2 » 7.x-1.0
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Closed (fixed) » Needs work

Changing to needs work because panels documentation link is not a substitute for advanced help nor does it address the issue of missing help topics.

redndahead’s picture

Project: Advanced Help » Panels
Version: 7.x-1.0 » 7.x-3.x-dev
Assigned: drumnjo » Unassigned

This should be an issue in panels

Kebz’s picture

.... a year later (lol) .... WOW... still nothing?? =(
I am EXTREMELY exhausted of endless lack of documentation, missing parts to documentations, etc.... not just on Panels, but other modules

I have spent MONTHS tinkering with (one of many of) my Drupal site ... from upgrades, updates, installs, uninstall ... this is a programmer's nightmare!! Not being able to fix nor get a solution ... and then getting reprimanded for posting incorrectly?? =\ ...lol

In the meantime, this link (http://www.expresstut.com/content/working-drupal-panels-drupal-7-creatin...) was provided from the Panels 3 Documentation page here https://www.drupal.org/node/496278. The videos provided from that site will give you a head start.

cassio’s picture

If you did of course post incorrectly, that is something that can be mentioned, and can slow down bug triage. As a programmer, you should understand that.

However, I cannot tell if that is what happened here.

I would like to see this fixed. And I am willing to help.

Any ideas as to how/what kind of workflow would be required?

--Sam

merlinofchaos’s picture

redndahead did not reprimand anyone, he simply moved this issue where it belongs.

The issue is that no one has written the documentation for Panels in the advanced help. In order to help, you'd have to write the documentation. Many years ago, I set up the structure and some issues for that in the hopes that volunteers would write the documentation, but it never actually happened. Since then, the community determined the documentation would be better on drupal.org so it more or less got ignored. That's all that's going on here.

Kebz’s picture

@merlinofchaos ... it wasn't here that I got reprimanded, it was for another module. I was just venting at the time of my post because that's when it all consumed me at the same time. LOL -- sorry for the confusion =)

cassio’s picture

so, as a newish user of panels, I may be able to help shed light here.

If anyone is interested in working with me to flesh out documentation, I would be happy to help.

The panels module is amazing, it has many raw power hooks and extending modules like mini-panels (included) or fieldable content panes.

I think the main thing that needs to happen is that things need to be defined? what is a panel page and how does that differ from a basic page? end users will ask that.

or, much more tantalizing, what is the difference between checking "make as homepage" and setting a node to be the front page in the "site information" tab.

I haven't figured out whether you can set a panel as homepage after you make it.

I am still confused by the terminology.

--Sam

cassio’s picture

also, the issue is that Views and many other modules (?) use Advanced Help, but Panels does not. So it breaks the Human User Interface Guidelines, in that humans and computers both are pattern seeking creatures.

cassio’s picture

I did some more digging today.

http://planningdrupalsites.com/feeditem/what-are-drupal-panels-contexts

Panels and Panelizer use this concept of nodes that is not discussed in any of the other language throughout drupal. Namely, you do not interact with the 'node' module as a 'node' in any other module.

If in actuality, they mean content type... it should say that.

cassio’s picture

found it here:

http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/39713/pulling-content-from-oth...

I will start writing documentation once people tell me how to do it.