help feature 1.04

[BJ Freeman]

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Christopher Snow sent the following on 5/1/2010 1:32 PM:

> Hi BJ,
>
> The patch for displaying the tooltip help was in a few days ago so
> should be in 10.04.  You can see it in action by going to the following
> link:
>
> https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/example/control/EditExample?exampleId=10000
>
>
> Hover over the field labels (e.g. Example Id, Type, etc) and you should
> see an informative help message.
>
> The patches we are talking about here are for providing the actual text
> that gets displayed when you hover over a field label.  Providing the
> actual text is similar to adding translation messages in property files.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> On 01/05/10 19:42, BJ Freeman wrote:
>> I can see your point on ones that are for the trunk.
>> but of a release it would seem since only bug fixes the patches should
>> work for the whole realse version.
>>
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>> Anil Patel sent the following on 5/1/2010 11:18 AM:
>>  
>>> Maintaining patches is another big job. We've done that, it gets
>>> difficult over time.
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards
>>> Anil Patel
>>> HotWax Media Inc
>>> Find us on the web at www.hotwaxmedia.com or Google Keyword "ofbiz"
>>>
>>> On May 1, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Christopher Snow wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> Hi Bruno,
>>>>
>>>> I had setup https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3743 for
>>>> tooltip help related patches  - is this what you were thinking?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> On 01/05/10 18:26, Bruno Busco wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> Chris,
>>>>> what we coud do to with this feature is to maintain a patch for the
>>>>> 10.04 in
>>>>> a specific JIRA.
>>>>> This would allow everybody (including me) to apply the patch on 10.04
>>>>> releases.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Bruno
>>>>>
>>>>> 2010/5/1 chris snow<[hidden email]>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>>>> It would be good if we could backport the field tooltip messages too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many thanks, chris
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1 May 2010 09:59, "Vikas Mayur"<[hidden email]>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Jacopo for all of your hard work to make it happen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Btw I am not sure if this is a good question to you (and others of
>>>>>> course)
>>>>>> about commit policy to the release branch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We all know that the main idea behind the release branch is to
>>>>>> provide a
>>>>>> more stable version of OFBiz.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was just wondering if we could also change the commit policy to
>>>>>> back port
>>>>>> unit test besides bug fixes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This way there would be more code coverage with the additional
>>>>>> unit tests
>>>>>> resulted by backporting to the release branch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am sorry if this has been already discussed in past.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Vikas
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Jacopo Cappellato<
>>>>>> [hidden email]>   wrote:
>>>>>>
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[Chris Snow-3]

Thanks BJ!

I have put some basic documentation describing the steps at:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/jgE7AQ

On 02/05/10 00:07, BJ Freeman wrote:

> this is part of thread from the dev list.
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> Christopher Snow sent the following on 5/1/2010 1:32 PM:
>    
>> Hi BJ,
>>
>> The patch for displaying the tooltip help was in a few days ago so
>> should be in 10.04.  You can see it in action by going to the following
>> link:
>>
>> https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/example/control/EditExample?exampleId=10000
>>
>>
>> Hover over the field labels (e.g. Example Id, Type, etc) and you should
>> see an informative help message.
>>
>> The patches we are talking about here are for providing the actual text
>> that gets displayed when you hover over a field label.  Providing the
>> actual text is similar to adding translation messages in property files.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>