Question

My requirement is to have database based help system for asp.net website, as shown in the image below. i have searched web but could not find even remotely related solution.

DNN Help System http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6720/dnnhelpimage20091125.jpg

Answer 1

You could assign each help item a unique ID (perhaps GUID to make it easier to generate by the developer enabling help for that item).

Clicking on the link opens a dialog, tooltip, new window, whatever. Just have the UI load the help text by ID from the database.

To make this easier to implement in the UI, there are a few ways. Perhaps you can create a jQuery client-side behavior.

your HTML would look something like:

<span class="help" id="#{unique-id-here}">Admin</admin>

and you could have jQuery on DOM load:

$(function() {
  var help = $(".help");
  help.prepend("<img src=\"path/to/images/help.png\" />");
  help.click(function() {
    //do something with this.id; open a popup, a title bar, whatever.
  }
});