Hello all,
up to SEBLOD 1.9 we were able to show the field description in a tooltip.
In SEBLOD 2.x, this functionality was gone and we had to create a custom variation to achieve this.
Are there any plans to implement tooltips as a standard feature in V3?
Cheers
gerhard
Hi Gerhard,
Yep. I'm not sure when this gonna be back........ but it will... definitely!
Regards,
Saba.
And for the time being, can you dezscribe how to do it with a custom variation please?
thanks
cyril
You do this with template position overrides, jQuery and accessing the field label, value and description attributes. There are many articles and forum posts on this. Also, view these YouTube videos: James Morrell Seblod Tutorials.
One other thing, you may need to tweak on the /template/seb_one/fields/_markup.php file. If so, change the name to markup.php (remove _).
Note around line 36 containing: $label.$html.$desc. ~ you may want to change the order of these fields. When I have used the Configuration settings, I did not seem to get any change in description order when the template was rendered.
thanks a lot!
cyril
Thank you for th elink.
James has some nice tuts.
Yea, they're for version 2.3 but good info. Thx to James. I updated my previous post also regarding markup.php file
Hi
Ok the placeholder trick is perfect for a few words description. But what if you need to give more explanation for a field?
how can we have the (?) button aside the field that opens a real tooltip ?
thanks
cyril
Thanks for sharing this, however - it doesn't work for me. I do get a tooltip, but there's nothing in it. There's also no (?) button aside the field that opens a real tooltip, as originally requested. I'm on J3.1.5 Stable with Seblod 3.X (3.1.5) if that's of any help.
Any other ideas as to how this can be achieved - or why it's failing?
Thanks very much in advance.
Lt.
Yes, I did inspect my HTML and everything seems to be in order. And yes, title and description are as they should be as well - it just doesn't work.
Nevertheless, I have decided that Seblod is not for us. There are too many things not working and no documentation to be found. Everything is based on workarounds and google'ing solutions to the problems - often without any success. I feel this CCK is far from complete and does not deserve any more of my time. It's too risky.
Maybe some day, when / if it gets up to speed with the likes of FlexiContent and F2C - right now it needs a lot more work.
But - thank you for your reply! I appreciate it! :o)
Good luck.
I understand your frustration about the lack of documentation and the workarounds needed to achieve what you need to do. But as soon as you have specific needs, you need to do specific actions and I wouldn't call them workarounds with Seblod but customizations or overrides.
IMHO, Flexi and F2C are far behind Seblod. Once you've passed the frustration, there's nothing you can't do with Seblod !
Olivier
thank you for sharing this solution.
It really looks nice and clean.
Is this the jquery popover() method from Bootstrap available by default in Joomla 3.x installations or do we need to include an extra jQuery plugin?
thanks for clarifying.
The "bug" is due to CSS overflow: hidden applied to one of the parent containers your form sits in. You can easily check this with Firebug and then fix it.
- you must first enable the description
- JCEmediabox install (I do not know if you can refer to external components, I apologize)
- Within the description of each item should be used to create a tooltip JCEMediabox following the tutorials directly from the site JCE.
nice approach. Many people use the JCE Mediabox Plugin, so this is a good way to go.
Thanks for sharing!
Gerhard
Are you by any way experienced in SEBLOD? I made some topics on fields regarding maximum select/check-box to be chosen. Or perhaps you know some video's/tutorials explaining how to limit...
Here are some video resources:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKlMPUVqiJBo1R0pbn8k7Bw
http://vimeo.com/channels/seblod
A forum post with video links
German Seblod forum videos
To find more resources click here.
Good Luck
Gerhard
Check out the new version! Tooltips are available now with version 3.3.4. To use, add text to the Field Description, then in the template, choose popover for the show descriptions option.
Hope that helps,
Randy
Hi rpoy,
many thanks for the info. Using Joomla 3.8.1 + Seblod 3.14.1 opening the Field Description the popup open the text editor, while what is saved is the JText string we can manage with Language Overrides.
Is it right to have the text editor into the Field Descritpion popup ?
