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META: Start providing tour tips for other core modules.

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Created on 19 February 2013, almost 12 years ago
Updated 5 June 2024, 7 months ago

Follow up for 📌 Write tour integration for the first page after install showing extend and other things Postponed

Problem/Motivation

The Tour module is in Core, but we have very few tours in Core that use it.

Note: We actually are unsure whether Tours are actually beneficial -- Tour hasn't been usability tested (see comment #141).

Proposed resolution

* Decide what tours would be beneficial.
* Agree upon standards for tours.
* Create tours.
* Commit them to Core.

Remaining tasks

Task A: Decide what tours would be beneficial

Some ideas for tours:

  1. Initial Experience 📌 Write tour integration for the first page after install showing extend and other things Postponed
  2. Blocks 📌 Write tour integration for block_content.module Postponed
  3. Fields 📌 Write tour integration for Field UI module Postponed
  4. Views - some done in #1809352: Write tour.module and add it to core → (needs an issue to finish/polish the views part)
  5. Multilingual 📌 META: Write a multipage multilingual tour Postponed (broken out into sub-issues for different module features)
  6. Appearance 📌 Write tour integration for Appearance pages Postponed
  7. Structure #2040791: Write tour integration for Structure page →
  8. Content 📌 Write tour integration for admin/content Postponed
  9. Add/edit content 📌 Write tour integration to add/edit content UI Postponed
  10. Menu 📌 Add tour integration for Menu admin page Postponed
  11. Reports 📌 Write tour integration for Dblog page Postponed
  12. People 📌 Write tour integration for People page Postponed
  13. Extend 📌 Write tour integration for Extend (Modules) admin page Postponed
  14. Edit user 📌 Write tour integration for user edit page Postponed
  15. Shortcuts 📌 Write tour integration for shortcuts page Postponed
  16. Forums 📌 Write tour integration for forum.module Postponed

From comment #130 -- @xjm's idea: Some obvious candidates for tours:

  • Each tab of the Field UI (and explanation of the tabs themselves).
  • The Extend page.
  • The Block UI (although the work on Layouts might eventually deprecate this page).
  • The Workflow UI.
  • The Appearance page.

Other thoughts on what tours to create:

  • Modules that implement hook_help(). Can some/all of the content be converted to tips? 📌 Find out how help and tour can work together Postponed
  • Modules with routes. If it implements a page then there is a good chance it will also want to provide tips.
  • Some pages may just need a hook_help() text (which goes in the Help block) rather than a full tour -- the help block doesn't require you to click on a Tour button to get the help displayed.
  • Creating a tour for an admin page should not be a substitute for fixing usability problems on the page
  • @yoroy's list of "conceptual criticals": http://yoroy.com/pieces/drupal-ux-conceptual-criticals

Check for
- open issues tagged with tour
- Tour module issues

B: Create tours

Each tour that we want to create should be given an issue (if it doesn't already have one; or un-postpone existing issues).

Here are some links about creating tours:

C: Update the standards for tours

We currently have 3 pages that talk about standards for tours. They haven't been reviewed recently, and should be:

🌱 Plan
Status

Fixed

Version

2.0

Component
Tour  →

Last updated 13 days ago

Created by

🇦🇺Australia nick_schuch

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