Madcap Flare Integration

Simple integration tools to link to embedded Madcap Flare help

Installation

Install the Madcap Flare integration from PyPi:

pip install django-madcap-flare

and add it to your settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'madcap_flare',
    ...
]

You will also need to configure the MADCAP_FLARE_ROOT and MADCAP_FLARE_TAGS

Usage

You can convert Madcap Flare header files into a Python dict with the get_help_mapping command:

python manage.py get_help_mapping path_to_file.h

This will output a dict on the command line that you can copy into your settings.py file.

Configuring

To setup your template tags, take the output of get_help_mapping and set it to the MADCAP_FLARE_TAGS in settings.py:

MADCAP_FLARE_TAGS = {
  'my-help-topic': '1000',
  'other-help-topic': '2000',
}

MADCAP_FLARE_ROOT = 'https://www.example.com/help_topics/'

The MADCAP_FLARE_ROOT setting tells Django what to use for your host name and default path.

View Mixin

To inject your information into your templates, you can use the view mixin for Madcap Flare:

from django.views.generic import ListView

from madcap_flare.views import MadcapFlareMixin

from myproject.myapp.models import MyModel


class MyListView(MadcapFlareMixin, ListView):
    """Sample list view.
    """

    help_key = 'my-help-topic'
    queryset = MyModel.objects.all()

The MadcapFlareMixin injects the help_key object into your template context.

Template Tag

The madcap_flare_help template tag outputs a Madcap Flare URL that can be linked from your templates:

{% load madcap_flare_tags %}

<p>To get more help on this feature, see our
  <a href="{% madcap_flare_help %}">documentation</a>
</p>

With the help_key set above, this will output:

<p>To get more help on this feature, see our
  <a href="https://www.example.com/help_topics/Default.htm#cshid=1000">documentation</a>
</p>

Developing

To test the integration just run:

virtualenv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py develop
python tests/manage.py test

Writing Docs for PyPI

To convert the docs to RST for PyPI:

pandoc --from=markdown --to=rst --output=README.txt README.md