Re: extending the help system

Hi Chris, thanks for your contributions on the help facility, also this is an excellent idea. the help screens are displayed with the HelpTemplate.ftl You could extend this ftl so it will recognize your extensions Regards, Hans On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:22 +0100, chris snow wrote: > I would

Re: extending the help system

Hi BJ, I'm not sure I understand what you are saying, but the field help tooltip functionality has been created by using entity artifact data (entity resource info). For details see: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/jgE7AQ What I'm now trying to do is re-use the entity field description art

Re: extending the help system

to clarify. why not do help files on how to user the webtools they already provide data in a good format. and the artifact is very powerful. = BJ Freeman http://bjfreeman.elance.com Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation

Re: extending the help system

have you investigated using the artifact of webtools = BJ Freeman http://bjfreeman.elance.com Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation Specialtymarket.com Systems Int

extending the help system

I would like to extend the help system to display entity field descriptions, for example: The docbook processor would then expand the myns:entityFieldDescriptions element to produce a horizontal list of fields, that are hyperlinked to the descriptions which will be below the li