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ajandClaude Opus 5.5
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Only the packaging scripts installed Help\, so F1 and the Help menu in a dev build always said help was not installed. The build now downloads the help.json release once into obj\ and copies it beside OpenNest.exe; CI and publish output are unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Desktop help
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User guides live in [ajisaacs/opennest-help](https://github.com/ajisaacs/opennest-help):
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Markdown pages plus annotated screenshots, built with MkDocs into offline HTML. This repo
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holds only the code that shows that HTML and the pin of which help release ships.
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## In the app
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- **Help > OpenNest Help** (F1 in the main window) opens the home topic;
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**Help > Your First Nest** opens the tutorial.
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- A dialog opts in to context help with `HelpTopics.Attach(this, HelpTopics.<Topic>)`;
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F1 anywhere in it opens that topic. Auto Nest and the CAD Converter do this today.
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- `HelpForm` is a single WebView2 window on its own STA thread, so modal dialogs never
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disable it. It serves the help folder from the private virtual host
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`https://help.opennest.local/`; off-site links open in the default browser. WebView2
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data goes to `%LOCALAPPDATA%\OpenNest\WebView2`.
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- The help folder is `Help\` beside `OpenNest.exe`. Set `OPENNEST_HELP_DIR` to a local
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opennest-help `site\` build to preview unreleased pages. Without either, the menu
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explains that help is not installed.
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- A Windows `dotnet build` of `OpenNest.csproj` downloads the pinned release once into
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`obj\help\` (again when `scripts/help.json` changes) and copies it to the build output's
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`Help\`. A failed download only warns. CI (`CI=true`) skips it; pass
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`-p:InstallHelp=false` to skip it offline. It never reaches `dotnet publish` output.
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## Topic IDs
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`HelpTopics` constants are IDs, not file names. The help's `topics.json` maps each ID
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to a page or `page.html#anchor`, and its build fails if a mapped page is missing. An
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unknown ID falls back to the home page. Add the ID to `topics.json` (in the help repo)
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before using a new constant here, and never rename an existing ID.
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## Packaging
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`scripts/help.json` pins one opennest-help release (tag and SHA-256 of its
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`opennest-help.zip`). `scripts/Install-Help.ps1` downloads it, refuses a hash mismatch
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and expands it into the package's `Help\` folder; both `Publish-Windows.ps1` and
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`Deploy-OpenNest.ps1` call it, and `build-info.json` records the help version. Pass
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`-HelpDirectory <site folder>` to either script to package a local build instead.
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To ship new help: tag the help repo `vX.Y.Z`, wait for its release, then update `tag`
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and `sha256` here (the release attaches `opennest-help.zip.sha256`).
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When a UI change alters a documented screen or workflow, update or recapture the
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affected opennest-help pages (its README covers capture and markup).
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