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Posted to dev@ofbiz.apache.org by Jacques Le Roux <ja...@les7arts.com> on 2010/04/15 19:42:58 UTC

Lookups desccriptions

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

Re: Lookups desccriptions

Posted by Jacques Le Roux <ja...@les7arts.com>.
From: "Bilgin Ibryam" <bi...@gmail.com>
> 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

Re: Lookups desccriptions

Posted by Bilgin Ibryam <bi...@gmail.com>.
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