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Tool Tip question

 		11/25/2010 5:23:27 PM
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Hello
I found the tool tip in 5.3 very useful.. However I do have fields that are "pre-made" by custom script and so are displayed as " read only " on my add/edit pages.

Thing is the tool tip is not active for those fields although I put some strings in the label editor. this could be considered as a bug to me. Because sure the user cant modify the field, but he would appreciate some explanation of what the field is, or why he cant edit it, so it's a pity that tool tip is not active for read only field..

If this is a bug then please make tool tip work on any field in next update. if not then it's something needed.. because If some users dont want tool tip on read only field they still have the choice to not fill the label editor and so it's desactivated for them whereas those like me you would like it cant activate it.. thank you.
hichem 11/26/2010



Hello
I found the tool tip in 5.3 very useful.. However I do have fields that are "pre-made" by custom script and so are displayed as " read only " on my add/edit pages.

Thing is the tool tip is not active for those fields although I put some strings in the label editor. this could be considered as a bug to me. Because sure the user cant modify the field, but he would appreciate some explanation of what the field is, or why he cant edit it, so it's a pity that tool tip is not active for read only field..

If this is a bug then please make tool tip work on any field in next update. if not then it's something needed.. because If some users dont want tool tip on read only field they still have the choice to not fill the label editor and so it's desactivated for them whereas those like me you would like it cant activate it.. thank you.


I think this is working as designed, however I find it also very useful to extend tool tips to list pages and be able to add next to each field header something like a question mark icon (you can see this in many websites), so that users can display some help or brief description of the column data.

It would be great to have the tooltips available to all fields. On the left of the column name we'd have the arrow for sorting order and on the right we could have a small (?) icon that would show tool tips on hovering over it.
May be it would even be possible in the future to assign a tool tip dynamically to column rows or specific cells if certain conditions are met through a check on events for the list page.

Who knows, its soon Xmas time and Sergey and his team have always nice surprises for Xmas <img src='https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=reply&id=54716&image=1&table=forumreplies' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
Sergey Kornilov admin 11/26/2010

This behaviour is by design. The idea of tooltips is to help users better understand how to fill a form. Readonly fields are just text labels and cannot have a tooltip. In other words it was out of scope of original "provide tooltips for form fields" feature.
In label editor we allow to edit all tooltips. If you decide to change field edit type from Readonly to normal Edit box - there comes the use of this tooltip. If you make tooltip disabled in tooltip editor it will raise exactly the same "why it's disabled" question.