Help Management

It does not exist in calServer V2. The Wiki takes its place.

This page described a feature that does not exist, until 2026-08

It listed context-sensitive help texts that administrators assign to individual UI elements, including an editor and a preview. None of it exists in V2: no endpoint, no interface, no help icon.

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What applies instead

The V1 help system (module helpSystem, tables hlp_topic, hlp_section and four more) does not come to V2. Decided on 2026-08-12, reasoning in ADR 2026-08-12.

The wiki can do everything the help system was built for, and more: pages, categories, revisions, multiple languages, media. If it does not suffice for a concrete need, the wiki gets extended — the help system does not get revived.

What happens to existing help texts

Nothing is lost. The V1→V2 migration (v1:sync) keeps filling the six hlp_* tables, so the content of a migrated installation sits in the V2 database. No interface reads it — whoever needs it lifts it from there into the wiki.

The tables are deprecated as of 6.0 and go away in 7.0, see Deprecations.

Context help in the interface

Explanations right at the input field do not need the wiki: admin forms carry their hints themselves (help and hint on the field, headerHint on the column). That is where context help comes from in V2 — in the form, not in a separate text repository.