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In order to customize the Guide url, I need to modify a core file and I don't have any config parameter that could handle this situation.

Related to Feature #12969

I tried to implement this as my company needs this. I tried adding a setting for this, and applying it in lib/redmine.rb. However it seems that even after saving the setting, the url link doesn't actually change unless I reload the web server.

I am guessing this is only set and read once:

in lib/redmine.rb:

   menu.push :administration, { :controller => 'admin', :action => 'index' }, :if => Proc.new { User.current.admin? }, :last => true
-  menu.push :help, Redmine::Info.help_url, :last => true
+  menu.push :help, Setting.app_help_url , :last => true

in app/views/settings/_general.html.erb:

  <p><%= setting_text_field :app_title, :size => 30 %></p>
+
+ <p><%= setting_text_field :app_help_url, :size => 30 %></p>
+
  <p><%= setting_text_area :welcome_text, :cols => 60, :rows => 5, :class => 'wiki-edit' %></p>

in config/settings.yml

  app_title:
    default: Redmine
+ app_help_url
+   default: www.redmine.org/guide
  app_subtitle:
    default: Project management

in config/locales/en.yml || en-GB.yml

  setting_app_title: Application title
+ setting_app_help_url: Application Help URL  
  setting_app_subtitle: Application subtitle
  setting_welcome_text: Welcome text

Am I doing something wrong, or should this really be a plugin as suggested in #12969?

I started work on a new plugin for this. The Redmine Custom Help URL plugin is the result.
See Redmine Custom Help URL plugin (v.0.0.2) for the first public announcement.