[AccessD] Tooltips

 >I've always thought that clearly labeled text boxes and command buttons were sufficient.

I have been struggling to get a version released at one specific client.  Yesterday I get a call 
that "there is no scroll bar for policy holder location" and we are backing the new version out.

Well... it turns out this is simply combo filtering, it has always been this way and the combo only 
displays WORK locations, but there was only one user that actually knew that.  The location that the 
users expected to see in the combo had never been flagged as a work location and so was not visible.

Now... having spent a half hour discovering this, I could "document it" in the ToolTip.  Would 
anyone ever read the tool tip?  That is a different discussion entirely.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Rocky Smolin wrote:
> I do not use them.  PITA if you want to do them consistently.  If you start
> down that road then the user will be expecting them everywhere for an
> indication of what the control is for.  I've always thought that clearly
> labeled text boxes and command buttons were sufficient.  
> 
> Rocky
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 6:24 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] Tooltips
> 
> Does anyone actually use ToolTips in an organized aggressive fashion?  Like
> fill them in on dozens or hundreds of controls in an application?
> 
> If so do you bother with a method of storing them in a table so that they
> can be found and edited?
> 
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