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Custom data fields: display help text as tooltip?
April 14, 2010, 10:56:40 am
Hi All,

CiviCRM has nice inline user help in the form of tooltips that display after various fields and at useful places in the interface (e.g., the "Access keys" tooltip at the bottom of most pages).

When creating a new custom data field, I'm able to add "Field pre help" and "Field post help" for the new field, which then display above and below the field, respectively.  What I'd like is to have help text displayed next to the field as a tooltip.

Is there any way to do this as a user or administrator?

Has anyone tried achieving this effect as a developer?  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Allen
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Re: Custom data fields: display help text as tooltip?
April 14, 2010, 12:19:54 pm

No current way to do it as a user or administrator. One tedious workaround might be to customize the template and create a .hlp file and mimic the other templates (but then you are putting the help in the template and not the DB)

Alternatively you can rewrite the profile template files and inline the javascript/html generated for the help block.

Check: CRM/Core/Smarty/plugins/function.help.php

also doing a view source on a CiviCRM page that uses the help icon will clarify things. ping us on irc if u need help

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Re: Custom data fields: display help text as tooltip?
April 14, 2010, 12:40:50 pm
Hi Lobo,

Thanks for the tips, Lobo.  Depending on how "necessary" it is, I may try and make it happen.  Will post back here any results.

- Allen
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