Attach a help link to each function

Your idea

It will be convenient to attach to each function a link to a related handbook page.

Problem to be solved

Faced with some menus, dialog boxes, text boxes, etc., users can be confused how it works. Now they must look for help via Help > Online handbook and search for the functions interest them, which may be hard to find.

Prior art

Microsoft Excel has attached to each function dialog box a help link to its official documentation.

1. Open Microsoft Excel.
2. Create a blank workbook.
3. Click Formula (in the ribbon bar) > Insert function, or press Alt, M, F, or press Shift + F3 instead (see Using functions and nested functions in Excel formulas for more information).
4. Select a function, for example XLOOKUP.
5. Click Help on this function.

Similar links to related pages in Handbook is needed.

Additional context

There Online handbook is not enough for a specific function.

Issue type

UX/Interaction bug (incorrect behaviour)

Description with steps to reproduce

1. Help / Online handbook

Result: old handbook on musescore.org opens Expected result: new handbook on GitBook opens

The old Handbook does link to the new, but it suggests this is still a work in progress. If so, fine, maybe we shouldn't update the link in the Help menu yet. But this issue could remain open as a reminder we do need to do it at some point.

Supporting files, videos and screenshots

What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.5.0-250721848, revision: github-musescore-musescore-7c55023

Regression

No.

Operating system

Debian 12

Additional context

No response

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The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the Help > Online handbook action and the function dialog interfaces, then determine how functions map to handbook pages. Done means relevant function dialogs expose links to their related handbook pages and the handbook destination in the Help menu is updated from the old site to GitBook.