This is a follow up to Ian’s post (see: node/307)… Ian configured the helpedit.module (see: http://drupal.org/node/18031 ) for Drupal to work with path aliases and then talked to Jeff, who has been doing some moonlight coding for us, about how it could be beneficial to have user roles specified. Jeff got the functionality working and has posted his code on Drupal (see: http://drupal.org/node/30545).

The next steps are to change:
1) The multi select for user roles to checkboxes rather than a drop down list. This will be a little more intuitive and mirror the user permission look that is already used on Drupal. Not to mention this is easy to implement

2) Ensure the helpedit text appears above the other help text on admin pages and there is no more “[more help]” link that leads to a blank page. I am not even sure if these two should be used together… maybe that will simplify issues.
3) On the admin/modules page the text for users with admin access for helpedit set to fuzzy admin/% appears in the module listing next to where helpedit can be enabled.

Looking down the road here:
How can this be kicked on to broadcast across an ASP style multi-site configuration! To supply help text to all client sites like this and have admin only messages will be amazing (ie “your blog module has now been updated” or “we have made security fixes to your site date: 7/9/05”).

But also setting it up so that each site can have a helpedit module running custom text for their customized page is important. And making it easy for the respective site admin to add new help text and modify existing text is going to be important.

I will now turn this over to Ian… but if you have not played with helpedit check it out. It could really make the experience for your users better.