Hi Caleb,

Caleb James DeLisle wrote:
> The problem:

> When a new wiki administrator uses the registration application, they are 
> faced with a set of fields with
> names which are too short to explain what each field is for.

Then maybe the right solution is to add a description. The fact that 
class properties don't have a description but only a name and a pretty 
name looks like a serious limitation to me. What would take to add a 
description field to a class property?

Hope this helps,
Marius

> eg:
> Boolean field named: "Check Active fields for user authentication"
> 
> To a new administrator, this is confusing and it's not apparent where to look 
> for an explanation.
> 
> 
> Proposal:
> I would like to add fields with names which are links to descriptions of what 
> those fields are for.
> I can implement this in the "configurable" class which I am working on.
> 
> This means XE would have links to xwiki.org but it already does on the 
> dashboard explanation of tags.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Caleb
> 
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