[andrew-polk]

Problem

The new (React) Collection Settings dialog has no Help button. The old WinForms dialog opened a help topic for the tab showing. Config-R, which draws the dialog's pages, could not tell the dialog which page was showing, and could not switch pages while the dialog stayed open.

Fix

• Config-R (feat: report the showing top-level page, and select one through a ref sillsdev/config-r#29): ConfigrPane gains onTopLevelPageChange, which reports the showing page's key, and selectedTopLevelPageKey, which switches to a page while the pane stays mounted, keeping the user's edits. initiallySelectedTopLevelPageKey works as before. BL-16734 will use the switch to replace its paneRemount workaround.
• Bloom: a Help button at the left of the dialog's bottom bar opens the topic for the showing page. Languages, Front & Back Matter and Subscription keep the old dialog's topics for those settings. Team Collection, Bloom Library, Advanced and Experimental get the general Settings topic.

Screenshots

The dialog's bottom bar, with Help at the left:

After a change that needs a restart, the restart message sits after Help, and OK reads Restart:

Risk Evaluation

Low. The change only reaches the new Collection Settings dialog, which is still being built alongside Old Settings. The bottom-left group now always has Help in it, and the restart message moved into the same group after it.

Not caused here, but now easy to reach: Bloom's existing help request never replies. After about six Help presses in one session, help stops changing topic and other requests stall too (for example OK no longer relabels to Restart). Every React Help button has this; it is tracked as BL-17033.

Ecosystem Impact

• Moves to @sillsdev/config-r 1.0.0-alpha.30 (from alpha.29). That release only adds to Config-R's API, so nothing else that uses it changes.
• No new strings: the button uses the existing Common.Help.
• No effect on books, published output, or other repos.

E2E Coverage

• New collection-settings-help.spec.ts: opens the dialog, shows each of the seven pages, clicks Help, and checks which topic Bloom was asked for. The test answers the help request itself, so no help window opens.
• Not covered: that each help topic exists in the help file and shows. The test checks only that the right topic is requested.

Notion Test Suite

• Test Case ID 850, Collection Settings: Help opens the topic for the page showing (new; Automation: PR Pending): https://app.notion.com/p/Collection-Settings-Help-opens-the-topic-for-the-page-showing-3ff4bb19df1281b391b0df2592cae523

Preflight report: https://bloombooks.github.io/dev-process-artifacts/deciders/bloomdesktop-bl-17032-settings-help-2.html

Ref: https://issues.bloomlibrary.org/youtrack/issue/BL-17032

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[andrew-polk]

[Claude Opus 5.5 from Andrew Polk's machine during preflight] Consulted Devin on 2026-10-20 up to commit 244df74. One finding, the unpublished Config-R version, is open on its thread until 1.0.0-alpha.30 is in.

[andrew-polk]

[Claude Opus 5.5 from Andrew Polk's machine during preflight] Consulted Devin on 2026-10-23 up to commit af22717. It repeated only the pinned-Config-R finding, which that commit already fixes (alpha.30); its thread is resolved.

[andrew-polk]

@andrew-polk reviewed 9 files and all commit messages, and resolved 1 discussion.
Reviewable status: 0 of 9 files reviewed, all discussions resolved.

[greptile-apps]

[Low impact] The PR appears safe to merge; no actionable new issue was established.

Summary

Adds page-specific Help to the React Collection Settings dialog.

• The Collection Settings dialog opens help for the page showing.

Tests and visual checks were not run. Config-R’s implementation was not installed locally, so its new callback behavior could not be checked directly.

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[StephenMcConnel]

@StephenMcConnel reviewed 9 files and all commit messages.
Reviewable status: complete! all files reviewed, all discussions resolved (waiting on andrew-polk).