Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
> 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.

+1

Thanks,
Marius

> 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
>>>
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