I would think that: help: description of the field and the purpose within the system. tooltip: some other info: "optional/required" or "empty for new number"
Regards, Hans On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 16:27 +0800, Michael Xu (xudong) wrote: > hi Raj, > > What's the difference between 'help' and 'tooltip'? Help is a more > complicated tooltip. > > In order to keep UI consistent, I would like to propose to embed the "help" > (Maybe as "more information") within the tooltip. > > -- > Regards, > Michael Xu (xudong) > www.wizitsoft.com | Office: (8610) 6267 0615 ext 806 | Mobile: (86) 135 0135 > 9807 | Fax: (8610) 62670096 > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Raj Saini <rajsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Michael, > > > > Tool tips are used for other purposes and user may need both of them. Would > > it not be okay add another attribute say "help" attribute to the form > > element? > > > > What does other in the community think of it as I want to go for this > > extension. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Raj > > > > Michael Xu (xudong) wrote: > > > >> hi Raj, > >> > >> You can use tooltip feature for this requirement plus the following > >> customizations: > >> > >> 1) customize form render to show tooltip right after label instead of > >> controller. > >> 2) customize theme to show tooltip as "?" and a new message layer will be > >> popped up if user clicks it. > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> Michael Xu (xudong) > >> www.wizitsoft.com | Office: (8610) 6267 0615 ext 806 | Mobile: (86) 135 > >> 0135 > >> 9807 | Fax: (8610) 62670096 > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Raj Saini <rajsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I want to show a small help icon (?) next to the form field title. > >>> Clicking > >>> on the icon should open a pop up describing the function of the field. I > >>> searched around and could not find if it is possible with the form > >>> widget. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Raj > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates
