About local help pages

The makehelp command generates the local help pages of a Lino site, that is, a set of static html pages in your /media/cache/help directory (from where your web server will serve them). These pages are Lino's answer to clicking on the ? button.

The local help pages system is based on a few conventions:

• models and table views are documented as autodoc directives in prose style and using simplified naming in some other doctree

simplified naming

The convention to document everything in the global name space of the models.py file of a plugin without the submodule that implements it.

For example when we say lino.modlib.users.User, lino.modlib.users.Users or lino.modlib.users.UserTypes, then we ignore the face that these classes are actually defined in different modules.

This is a tested document. The following instructions are used for initialization:

>>> import lino
>>> lino.startup('lino_book.projects.min1.settings')
>>> from lino.api.doctest import *

>>> rt.models.users.User
<class 'lino.modlib.users.models.User'>

>>> rt.models.users.Users
lino.modlib.users.desktop.Users

>>> rt.models.users.UserTypes
lino.modlib.users.choicelists.UserTypes