How to generate howerover tooltip for textarea(paragraph) and/or multi select ch

raghunandanj3904

Certified Senior Developer

over 11 years ago

How to generate howerover tooltip for textarea(paragraph) and/or multi select check box fields??
I have a script which does t fr only text and dropdown fields. In my multi check field values r populated from constant(multi value).
Here is the code for text fields. Can anyone help me in paragraph and checkbox??

$("#textControl_fd_component_"+window.FormDesigner.runtimeNamespace+"fieldID").attr({title: "Tool tip text goes here"});

I tried for paragraph in the above code which doesn work. Like #paragraphControl or #textareaControl... Both doesn yield anything....

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0 venkateshr over 11 years ago

You can try plainTextControl_fd_component_ for a non-rich text paragraph field.
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0 raghunandanj3904
Certified Senior Developer
over 11 years ago

venkatesh: plainTextControl din't work.
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0 larson.thune
Appian Employee
over 11 years ago

Here are two alternative design suggestions that allow you to stay out-of-the-box and thereby take full advantage of the tool's mobile and social capability:

(1) For the paragraph field, instead of using the tooltip, simply use the out-of-the-box "instructions" field element

(2) Instead of the multi-select box, use a paging grid with two columns, say Option and OptionDescription. Put the description you are currently using in your tooltip as the value corresponding to each Option in the Description column.
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0 tharuh over 11 years ago

Hi Larson
Can you provide the code for paragraph field using instruction field element?
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0 larson.thune
Appian Employee
over 11 years ago

Tharu, sorry for any confusion. I am advocating for *not* using javascript on the paragraph field, and instead simply having the ToolTip text that Venky was suggesting for onHover in the "instructions" form field element. By keeping the form free of javascript, you are able to mobile-enable the form, sacrificing only (what I would argue is) a minimal enhancement of user experience with the onHover tooltip.
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