There was something to address this before the class editor overhaul, there was a tooltip field. It's never been used in our default distrib, may be we should get it back and improve it. See http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Creating+a+form+with+validation+and+tooltips
JV. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
