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[Benn Oshrin <>]

Let's cancel the dev call and Arlen you and I can just find a time to
chat, either that slot or some other time.

Thanks,

-Benn-

On 1/28/16 9:26 PM, Arlen Johnson wrote:
> 
> On 1/27/16 6:32 PM, Benn Oshrin wrote:
>> Also, we have a dev call for this Friday. Do we have anything to
>> discuss, or should we just cancel?
> 
> I'm not sure we need to meet, but I have a topic to check on wrt
> documentation:
> 
> Heather and I had a conversation a week (no...two weeks!) ago about
> inline documentation / contextual help - the idea being that some of the
> concepts in COmanage will be new to users - particularly casual users. 
> For example, I'm a new user who just logged in.  ...What exactly is a
> "Collaboration"?  Some ideas we discussed (from my scratchy notes,
> unedited):
> 
>      1.
> 
>         quick help on the front page
> 
>      2.
> 
>         popup with version changes for users (e.g. like new confluence
>         version does)
> 
>      3.
> 
>         login page: please login (with what?) - some explanation there?
> 
>      4.
> 
>         Welcome page:
> 
>          1.
> 
>             Break the “please select” message out of title
> 
>          2.
> 
>             Rephrase to something like “Please select the collaboration
>             in which you want to participate.”
> 
>          3.
> 
>             add an info link to the right for explaining what a
>             collaboration is
> 
>      5.
> 
>         Person canvas:
> 
>          1.
> 
>             info buttons and info text for each heading
> 
>      6.
> 
>         Platform pages - info buttons next to titles of pages
>         (explaining what the “thing” is, e.g. collaborations)
> 
> 
> 
> There are some specific ideas in there, but what we recognized after
> looking at a lot of the interface is that the inclusion of info buttons
> (e.g. http://www.zeusdraw.com/_images/ProductInfoButton.png, or "what's
> this", or an underline indicating a pop up word bubble) near most of the
> headings of pages and heading of canvas sections could be helpful in
> explaining what things are and how they work.
> 
> I don't think this has much bearing on most forms, as many have
> excellent in-line help already.
> 
> If we agree that these are worthwhile features (and covered by TIER),
> I'll create some tickets.
> 
> Arlen
> 
>