User help in Forms Publisher

alanhill

Hi,

When developing Forms, is it possible to allow a user to click on a button (like a tooltip button) to show them a popup window (or layer of html) which could include some explanatory text, or even more handy, a little preview of the part of the generated page that the particular field relates to.

I've used the 'description', but since this is text-only it's not particularly useful, when a picture would make it so much easier.

We would create the preview popup ourselves, but it's the functionality in the form that is missing at present.

One initial, rather clunky, idea was to use something like a radio button and some event handling, to open a new window, but not to populate anything back into the dcr.

Any thoughts, suggestions, examples - might be one of those lovely undocumented features!

Thanks

Alan

Adam Stoller

Hi, When developing Forms, is it possible to allow a user to click on a button (like a tooltip button) to show them a popup window (or layer of html) which could include some explanatory text, or even more handy, a little preview of the part of the generated page that the particular field relates to. I've used the 'description', but since this is text-only it's not particularly useful, when a picture would make it so much easier. We would create the preview popup ourselves, but it's the functionality in the form that is missing at present. One initial, rather clunky, idea was to use something like a radio button and some event handling, to open a new window, but not to populate anything back into the dcr. Any thoughts, suggestions, examples - might be one of those lovely undocumented features! Thanks Alan

For the 'help' piece you can either customize the help link that appears on the Edit DCR form (see the UI Customization Guide for details) - or provide your own callout in the DCT form that pops-up a browser window with the help information.

For being able to see what the content looks like - try clicking the Preview button - or did I miss something in your description that explains why that wouldn't do what you want?