Arc - Help - ability for plugins to specify separate help-docs folder

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

At present the help system files need to reside under files/help-docs in the main Arc server folder. This means plugins can't provide their own help files because they don't have access to the main Arc server folder.

Describe the solution you'd like

The ability to load help files from the plugin's own folder: plugins/plugins/help-doc.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Asking the Arc team to integrate help files for each plugin. This doesn't make much sense, as plugins are optionally installed, so including help for missing plugins would just bloat the app unnecessarily.

Additional context

Suggest the help system recognise when the help files array contains a plugin path. This way, plugins can fire up a help dialog by passing an array such as ['plugins/{pluginName}/{sectionName}', ...].

For example, the 'atmosphere' plugin could define it's help function as:

$scope.help = function () {
    $dialogs.helpDialog([
        'plugins/atmosphere/overview', 
        'plugins/atmosphere/page-2', 
        ...
    ], 'ATMOSPHEREPORTALHELP');
};

assigned to @hwithington

added arc enhancement labels

changed milestone to %review

@aeremenko Can you check this code and merge it?

Mostly we need to be sure it hasn't broken any help icons in the main app. If you feel extra eager, you can add a help button to an existing plugin to test it further ;)

This enhancement is required for the Atmosphere Portal plugin -- it needs to be merged before we can release it.

Note: this also required a golang upgrade above 1.22, so it's great we already did that!

changed milestone to %4.6.0

closed