# Onboarding System addon to provide the onboarding overlay for user-friendly tours. ## How to show the onboarding tour Open `about:config` page and filter with `onboarding` keyword. Then set following preferences: ``` browser.onboarding.disabled = false browser.onboarding.tour-set = "new" // for new user tour, or "update" for update user tour ``` And make sure the value of `browser.onboarding.tourset-verion` and `browser.onboarding.seen-tourset-verion` are the same. ## How to show the onboarding notification Besides above settings, notification will wait 5 minutes before showing the first notification on a new profile or the updated user profile (to not put too much information to the user at once). To manually remove the mute duration, set pref `browser.onboarding.notification.mute-duration-on-first-session-ms` to `0` and notification will be shown at the next time you open `about:home` or `about:newtab`. ## How to show the snippets Snippets (the remote notification that handled by activity stream) will only be shown after onboarding notifications are all done. You can set preference `browser.onboarding.notification.finished` to `true` to disable onboarding notification and accept snippets right away. ## Architecture Everytime `about:home` or `about:newtab` page is opened, onboarding overlay is injected into that page. `OnboardingTourType.jsm` will check the onboarding tour type (currently support `new` and `update`). Then in `onboarding.js`, All tours are defined inside of `onboardingTourset` dictionary. `getTourIDList` function will load tours from proper preferences. (Check `How to change the order of tours` section for more detail). When user clicks the action button in each tour, We use [UITour](http://bedrock.readthedocs.io/en/latest/uitour.html) to highlight the correspondent browser UI element. The UITour client is bundled in onboarding addon via `jar.mn`. ## Landing rules We would apply some rules: * To avoid conflict with the origin page, all styles and ids should be formatted as `onboarding-*`. * For consistency and easier filtering, all strings in `locales` should be formatted as `onboarding.*`. * For consistency, all related preferences should be formatted as `browser.onboarding.*`. * For accessibility, images that are for presentation only should have `role="presentation"` attribute. ## How to change the order of tours Edit `browser/app/profile/firefox.js` and modify `browser.onboarding.newtour` for the new user tour or `browser.onboarding.updatetour` for the update user tour. You can change the tour list and the order by concate `tourIds` with `,` sign. You can find available `tourId` from `onboardingTourset` in `onboarding.js`. ## How to pump tour set version after update tours The tourset version is used to track the last major tourset change version. The `tourset-version` pref store the major tourset version (ex: `1`) but not the current browser version. When browser update to the next version (ex: 58, 59) the tourset pref is still `1` if we didn't do any major tourset update. Once the tour set version is updated (ex: `2`), onboarding overlay should show the update tour to the updated user (ex: update from v56 -> v57), even when user has watched the previous tours or preferred to hide the previous tours. Edit `browser/app/profile/firefox.js` and set `browser.onboarding.tourset-version` as `[tourset version]` (in integer format). For example, if we update the tourset in v60 and decide to show all update users the tour, we set `browser.onboarding.tourset-version` as `3`. ## Icon states Onboarding module has two states for its overlay icon: `default` and `watermark`. By default, it shows `default` state. When either tours or notifications are all completed, the icon changes to the `watermark` state. The icon state is stored in `browser.onboarding.state`. When `tourset-version` is updated, or when we detect the `tour-type` is changed to `update`, icon state will be changed back to the `default` state.