Question

I'm running a KM application where I have the users editing the TWiki form only with action=form. One thing my users have pointed out is the lack of formatting help like they get in the normal edit mode. I'm trying to find some solution without editing the edit script and/or template.

I've tried messing around with the tooltip field in the form definition but have not found anything that works.

• I tried doing and Include of a topic with the formatting help
  • that showed the actual INCLUDE{SomeTopic} line.
• Also tried putting the formatting tips all on one line with <br /> instead of linebreaks.
  • That didn't work either. I got the first 20 or so characters then it cut off.

I noticed that if you don't put anything in the tooltip field, that when you hover over the form field name in edit mode, it shows the text 'Click to see details in separate window.' Is that just a teaser or is there some way to easily enable that?

Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Environment

-- MatthewCardozo - 16 May 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

Be careful; not all formatting legal in edit is legal in form fields. Anyway, in answer to your question, it's easy to open a URL in a separate window, simply using a <a href=. Google for "javascript open".

The best approach is probably to use an "unnamed label" row in the form. See the Bugs:ItemTemplate for an example.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 18 May 2007

I guess this was answered?

-- JosMaccabiani - 24 May 2007

I knew I remembered seeing that somewhere

Thanks, I'm sure that will do fine.

-- MatthewCardozo - 07 Jun 2007