Search for Instructions

  • Hi,

    I’m looking to make a knowledge-base for my clients in the backend using your plugin. But I was wondering if there is a way to make the list of instructions searchable from within the help menu itself. For example, if someone doesn’t know the name of something but types it in to the search bar it could pull up a variety of instructions that may or may not be relevant (similar to Mac Help). Secondarily, I could just have all the instructions displayed on every help menu and just set privilege level restrictions for their viewing, making it one less step during the creation process, and then just display like the first 3 or 5 instructions while they type whatever it is they are looking for. So, is there a way to do this?

    -Matt

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/back-end-instructions/

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  • Plugin Author Doodlebee

    (@doodlebee)

    Well, it *kinda* already does this. not 100% how you’re asking for it though.

    There’s a setting to make the Instructions searchable – but through the front end. By default, it keeps the instructions hidden from search results, but you can turn that off. Then you clients can go through the front end of the site and search, and results will come up.

    You can also already set user-level access for each instruction (in the right sidebar as you are creating the instruction). So you *can* set the overall user level to “subscriber” in the settings, and it’ll display the instructions in the Help menu, but only people with that level of access (and above) will see the instructions meant for them.

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