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Umbraco Custom Section - Help Manager

Comtent managed sites are fantastic for providing the tools that enable non technical users to manage the day to day content on a site.

Several factors are critical to the level of success achieved in this regard:

• The intuitiveness and ease of use of the administration area. Umbraco has this well covered!
• Help documentation. Non technical users will require assistance in some aspects of ongoing site maintenance no matter how intuitive the administration area is. Notes will be taken on how to do things, notes invariably get lost, the hand writing is illegible or it doesn't make sense when you refer to it 6 months later.

Enter stage right: The Yoyocms Back Office Help Manager

This package installs a custom tree into the Umbraco administration area where help information can be stored.

The data is entered via the standard Rich Text Editor and so all functionality available within the editor is as your disposal, e.g. adding images, links to media files, etc.

You are able to record information about specific document and media types and these will appear by default.

You are then also able to create generic help information (e.g. how to format a table) and then choose which document/media types it should appear on (most proably only those that have the rich text editor available).

For more information and to download the package please visit the Umbraco website.

I'd love to hear from you if you have any feedback regarding this package.

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