[QGIS-Developer] Processing Help system

matteo matteo.ghetta at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 23:29:52 PST 2018


Hi Nyall,


>> PR at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/6298
>>
>> Feedback on this approach is welcome, but I think fixing in the code
>> is correct vs fixing via redirects.

that's great! thanks for the PR!

> Just a heads-up: I've noticed while testing the above PR that while it
> fixes the native/3d/qgis issue, there's an issue with how the anchor
> links in the docs have been named.
> 
> E.g.
> 
> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/database.html#import-into-spatialite
> 
> should actually be
> 
> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/database.html#importintospatialite
> 
> Using the algorithm id and not its name. The id is unique,
> non-translated, and guaranteed to be set for the lifetime of 3.x, but
> algorithm names are translated, can be tweaked and refined and are not
> locked.
> 
> With the above PR the help directs to the URL using an id based
> anchor, so the anchors themselves in the docs should be updated to fix
> this.

so the provider issue is fixed. Now from the doc side, we have to change
the section headers so that they match the unique id of the algorithms
in the code. Did I understand it correctly?

Many thanks again

Matteo



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