What to do about settings/help

[phil-davis]

Steps to reproduce

1. have community edition installed
2. browse to http://172.17.0.1:8080/index.php/settings/admin or http://172.17.0.1:8080/index.php/settings/personal - that works
3. browse to http://172.17.0.1:8080/index.php/settings/help

Expected behaviour

Some help links in https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/master/settings/templates/help.php will be displayed.

Actual behaviour

I am redirected to the files page.

[phil-davis]

Access to settings/help seems to have been removed in PR #34612

But the help.php content was updated in PR #34586 so that it points to various online resources (rather than to previously-bundled docs)

This seems to have happened around about core version 10.2

What is the requirement?

• settings/help should be available with links to online resources, or;
• settings/help should be gone (i.e. the "currently dead" settings/templates/help.php could be deleted in GitHub)

[cortho]

Related but not the same: #36238

[phil-davis]

@davitol do you know about the requirements and history of the help links?

[davitol]

@phil-davis All I can tell you:

In 10.1.0 There were a section with help in the settings dropdown that was no longer present in the EE tarball version. That section looked like this:

#34510 (comment)

So the decision was to remove it and make it consistent with the Enterprise Edition. That was done with the PR #34612

That bundled docs need to be removed from the community edition. Because in the enterprise edition were no longer there. So it was a case of consistency.

idk if this info is worthy or it was already known by you but thats all I can tell tell you.