Help items in Backoffice

Tooltips and Popovers

User helps are user-triggered messages that provide additional information about an element or feature. There are two ways to trigger this messages (tooltip or popover).

Settings Tooltip Popover
Initiated By Hover (mouse) Click
Terminated When User leaver predefined interaction area User taps to close or click another area of screen
Paired Element Page element label “i” icon
Content Type Succinct help Succinct or Verbose help

Definition in Genio

Add the "Help" to the element:

  • Define a succinct message - mandatary
  • Define a verbose message - optional
  • Define a help - not yet implemented

helpform

helpformfield

The definition of the type of help can be done in Layout/theme variables.

By default, the type of help is the tooltip, but you can change it to the popover.

appchange layoutvariables

Tooltip

The tooltip is usually used to provide the user with a succinct help to the element on the page.

tooltip

When the developer chooses the Help type as Tooltip:

  • It will appear help succinct in a tooltip

  • If there is a verbose message defined it will appear also in the popover.

Popover

The popover is generally used to describe in more detail the help of the page element.

popover

If there is just a succinct message it will appear this message in the popover; Otherwise will appear the verbose message.

Summary

Message type Tooltip Popover
Succinct Tooltip (Succinct) Popover (Succinct)
Succinct and Verbose Tooltip (Succinct) and Popover (Verbose) Popover (Verbose)