Free 10gr3 Component: Add Tool Tips to Metadata Fields

I recently got a question from a customer about how to add tool tips to metadata fields. Like if you had a field named "Comments," you could float your mouse over that field, and you'd see a small popup with a description of that field. I said, no problem, just set this flag in your config.cfg, or as a side effect to a profile rule:

xComments:description=Comments about this content item

No different than the isHidden or isInfoOnly flags. Unfortunately, it didn't work...

I thought that was built into the core, because I distinctly remember making that feature myself. Or more correctly, I made a component called ProfileExtras which added a whole bunch of useful features to the 7.5 Profiles functionality... including this. I thought I rolled that into the core for the 10gr3 release, but I left Stellent before Oracle released UCM 10gr3...

I thought about telling the customer how to do it... but I realized it would take about as much time to do it myself, as it would to describe to somebody else how to do it... So I whipped it out, and put it in the Bezzotech Library:

  • Tool Tips : A simple component that adds tool tips to metadata fields, so contributors know what to put in the fields.

Hopefully others find this useful as well...

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