Help text in javascript forms

[Anne Ghisla]

Hi Simon,

in some of the forms, we noticed the lack of tooltips, i.e.
Deliverables, and in general for acronyms.
I looked a bit at the Javascript/ajax classes you use, but I couldn't
figure how to extract tooltips from Django models' help_text (that are
missing as well). This sounds to me the best approach, so that all
information is kept in Django code, and JS used only for display.

What do you think? With a little guidance I can help on that.

thanks a lot,

anne
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[Simon Morris]

Hi Anne,

> in some of the forms, we noticed the lack of tooltips, i.e.
> Deliverables, and in general for acronyms.
> I looked a bit at the Javascript/ajax classes you use, but I couldn't
> figure how to extract tooltips from Django models' help_text (that are
> missing as well). This sounds to me the best approach, so that all
> information is kept in Django code, and JS used only for display.

All of the tooltip content is stored in DjangoCMS pages (or actually
the PageContent model) in your database.

I thought about storing the documentation in the code as help_text
attributes but then realised that it would have to be *me* that ended
up maintaining the documentation, and I'm far too lazy for that.

So in our setup I can give the Project Managers access to update the
tooltips via the Django Admin site.

I've attached a MySQL dump of our CMS pages - if you are running MySQL
you should be able to load these up into your database and the
tooltips will work. If you are running something other than MySQL I
could do a Django data dump.

I've also written a Wiki page on the project website that goes into a
little more depth.

http://code.google.com/p/django-project-management/wiki/HowTooltipsWork

I'm more than happy to add documentation - just ask whenever you have
a question and I'll reply via the Wiki

Thanks

~sm