Lookups desccriptions

[Jacques Le Roux]

Hi,

At r933130 Bilgin introduced a nice feature which allows to show the related descriptions (if exist) of Ids used/rendered in lookups
fields. There is also a showDescription lookup attribute to hide if needed.
I wonder if we could not show them by default (Bilgin set the widget.lookup.showDescription to N in widget.properties) and hide
descriptions where they will be annoying (for instance in the Catalog main/landing page left column )

Jacques

[Bilgin Ibryam-2]

Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At r933130 Bilgin introduced a nice feature which allows to show the
> related descriptions (if exist) of Ids used/rendered in lookups
> fields. There is also a showDescription lookup attribute to hide if
> needed.
> I wonder if we could not show them by default (Bilgin set the
> widget.lookup.showDescription to N in widget.properties) and hide
> descriptions where they will be annoying (for instance in the Catalog
> main/landing page left column )
>
> Jacques
>
>

In rev 936638 I enabled lookup descriptions. They are annoying when
there is not enough space, for instance if the lookup is on the left
bar, or when the form has more than one column.
Anyway, it is easy to disable them if needed. Or we can make the
descriptions to appear as html tooltips  ie they may appear only when
user puts the mouse over the ID.

Bilgin

[Jacques Le Roux]

From: "Bilgin Ibryam" <[hidden email]>

> Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> At r933130 Bilgin introduced a nice feature which allows to show the
>> related descriptions (if exist) of Ids used/rendered in lookups
>> fields. There is also a showDescription lookup attribute to hide if
>> needed.
>> I wonder if we could not show them by default (Bilgin set the
>> widget.lookup.showDescription to N in widget.properties) and hide
>> descriptions where they will be annoying (for instance in the Catalog
>> main/landing page left column )
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>>
> In rev 936638 I enabled lookup descriptions. They are annoying when
> there is not enough space, for instance if the lookup is on the left
> bar, or when the form has more than one column.
> Anyway, it is easy to disable them if needed. Or we can make the
> descriptions to appear as html tooltips  ie they may appear only when
> user puts the mouse over the ID.
>
> Bilgin

Thanks Bilgin,

I totally agree, though if I remember the html tooltips was not working in all browsers, maybe "today" browsers are all OK...

Jacques