Why not post ideas here instead of into the ideas email box? That way we can bounce ideas around and fine tune / laugh at them as a group?
Perhaps more well-formed ideas with a group behind them might get prioritised.
I would really like a nice way to make better help links in the Content Editors. Creating long descriptive field names usually does not help much and makes the window unbalanced and cluttered. The plan I have now is just to make the field names hyperlinks that open a new window with help on that field.
In our case we would be showing not just an extended description but also some screen shots highlighting where the data will get published. This would ideally be localized down the road to cover multiple languages.
Has anyone else used a similar method?
[QUOTE=aehusted;416]I would really like a nice way to make better help links in the Content Editors. Creating long descriptive field names usually does not help much and makes the window unbalanced and cluttered. The plan I have now is just to make the field names hyperlinks that open a new window with help on that field.
In our case we would be showing not just an extended description but also some screen shots highlighting where the data will get published. This would ideally be localized down the road to cover multiple languages.
Has anyone else used a similar method?[/QUOTE]
We are going to provide support for some kind of annotation or help for content editor fields in Rhythmyx 7.0.
[QUOTE=Mike-L;265]Why not post ideas here instead of into the ideas email box? That way we can bounce ideas around and fine tune / laugh at them as a group?
Perhaps more well-formed ideas with a group behind them might get prioritised.[/QUOTE]
I totally agree! We could then rate the ideas to give the Percussion guys some idea of what our priorties are! I have logged over 25 ideas so far!
We have already implemented this on 6.5.2 with a few tweaks. It is loads better than long descriptive names. See attached. We use two different things:
- a clickable ? which pops up a windows for a longer description
- a hover ? for a “tooltip”
We use the ideas email address because we have a workflow process and internal application that manages those ideas, prioritizes them and helps us determine what will go into the road map. Currently we don’t have a process to gather them from the forum including the voting information. This is something that we are looking into.
In the mean time, if you want to post ideas to the technical discussion, you will get feedback from other users and garner support for the suggestion. Once the suggestion has been finalized, please send a summary with details about what functionality is being requested, send it to ideas@percussion.com.