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This has been brewing at the back of my mind for some time, over the past holidays it took form and turned out pretty well, so I've packaged it a bit, and am now happy to preset...
The Help Button project.
Underwhelming name? Yeah, probably. But also effective.
The project solves a pretty common problem in the world of Sense apps:
How can we provide custom, context aware help for our Sense apps?
The help button does this by injecting itself into the main toolbar of every Sense app.
When clicked a small menu will appear, the menu items can open URLs, send an email (mailto:) or open a bug report dialog (which is then posted to some backend server or bug handling tool).
The basic variant looks like this:
The bug reporting variant can look like this:
All colors, menu items, links etc are fully customizable.
There is also a simple but effective template concept, where the currently open app's app and/or sheet idcan be injected into the opened URL. This makes it possible to open a custom help site for each app, and even sheet if so desired.
Full source code, examples etc available on GitHub.
In-depth blog post over at ptarmiganlabs.com.
Enjoy!
