Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-13 Thread Michael Xu (xudong)
changing core schema. > >>> > >>> Just my personal opinion. Look forward to more comments. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Regards, > >>> Michael Xu (xudong) > >>> www.wizitsoft.com | Office: (8610) 6267 0615 ext 806 | Mobile

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-12 Thread David E Jones
0615 ext 806 | Mobile: (86) 135 >>> 0135 9807 | Fax: (8610) 62670096 >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Jacques Le Roux < >>> jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Xu (xudong)
n a related discussion on this subject in the past. >>> http://markmail.org/message/ed4l4trj3cotnuvv >>> From this thread, I collected some ideas here >>> >>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/New+Features+Roadmap+-+Living+Document#NewFeaturesR

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Xu (xudong)
ap+-+Living+Document#NewFeaturesRoadmap-LivingDocument-Quickeranintuitiveaccesstobasicfunctionnalities(creation,etc >> .) >> >> I'd suggest to create an umbrella Jira issue and to create a subtask for >> the "Small help icon next the form field title" idea >>

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Xu (xudong)
gt; http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/New+Features+Roadmap+-+Living+Document#NewFeaturesRoadmap-LivingDocument-Quickeranintuitiveaccesstobasicfunctionnalities(creation,etc > .) > > I'd suggest to create an umbrella Jira issue and to create a subtask for > the &quo

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-12 Thread Jacques Le Roux
#NewFeaturesRoadmap-LivingDocument-Quickeranintuitiveaccesstobasicfunctionnalities(creation,etc.) I'd suggest to create an umbrella Jira issue and to create a subtask for the "Small help icon next the form field title" idea Thanks Jacques From: "Hans Bakker" I would think th

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Xu (xudong)
hi Raj, >From your case, I can see the form widget design is not flexible enough (I list my ideas in previous emails but nobody responds. Will paste it here). I think it is not good to touch the basic xml schema in most time if customization is required. Maybe we can borrow IoC idea from spring t

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-12 Thread Hans Bakker
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 'toolt

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-12 Thread Raj Saini
Hi Michael, Tool tip is already used to render the text after the field. I do not have a problem with this field but it is already used and renders the tooltip text after the text input box. If I change the tool tip rending, it will also change current rending of the tool tip and not sure if t

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Xu (xudong)
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 06

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-12 Thread Raj Saini
Thanks Hans, seems good to me. Raj Hans Bakker wrote: A single 'help' true/false would be very nice and then get the description from the entitymodel.xml file field Regards, hans On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:17 +0530, Raj Saini wrote: Thanks Michael, Tool tips are used for other purposes a

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-11 Thread Hans Bakker
A single 'help' true/false would be very nice and then get the description from the entitymodel.xml file 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

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-11 Thread Raj Saini
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) wrot

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-08 Thread Raj Saini
Sure Bruno. Raj Bruno Busco wrote: 3) Submit a patch when you have done. ;-) -Bruno 2010/1/8 Raj Saini : Thanks Michael. 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 too

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-08 Thread Bruno Busco
3) Submit a patch when you have done. ;-) -Bruno 2010/1/8 Raj Saini : > Thanks Michael. > > 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 labe

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-08 Thread Raj Saini
Thanks Michael. 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 b

Re: Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-08 Thread Michael Xu (xudong)
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

Small help icon next the form field title

2010-01-07 Thread Raj Saini
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