How can I add a popup help text near a field in Accounts module in SugarVersion 7.6

You would simply create a custom field type for any fields that you need to add this to.  This is done from the client/base/fields.  The link below goes over all of it. 

For example, if you wanted this on name field you could extend the file clients/base/fields/name/edit.hbs

http://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_7.5/UI_Model/Fields/Examples/Creating_Cu… 

Let me know if you have any questions.

You would simply create a custom field type for any fields that you need to add this to.  This is done from the client/base/fields.  The link below goes over all of it. 

For example, if you wanted this on name field you could extend the file clients/base/fields/name/edit.hbs

http://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_7.5/UI_Model/Fields/Examples/Creating_Cu… 

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hi Kenneth, 

Thank you for the reply!. 

I tried it on the name field, and i'm just a newbie to SugarCrm

So I extended  clients/base/fields/name/edit.hbs

and added a image next to Name field, 

and this is my codicone in custom/clients/base/fields/name/edit.hbs

<input type="text" name="{{name}}" value="{{value}}"{{#if def.len}} maxlength="{{def.len}}"{{/if}}{{#if def.placeholder}} placeholder="{{str def.placeholder this.model.module}}"{{/if}} class="inherit-width">
{{#unless hideHelp}}{{#if def.help}}<p class="help-block">{{str def.help module}}</p>{{/if}}{{/unless}}

// Link to the "help "

<img src="{{custom/themes/default/themes/default/images/icon_info.gif}}">

but it is not working, i'm not sure if it is the way to extend,?  Could you please be more specific on this, Like i said I a newbie on Sugar! 

Hi, Anoop Antony!
Let's say you need to set help popup on the record view. So you should to customize several files (for Accounts module):

• record.php;
• record.js.

In record.php add property:

'css_class' => 'help-class'

And in the controller record.js add:

// Some code before
events: {
    "mouseenter .help-class" : "showHelpTooltip",
    "mouseleave .help-class" : "hideHelpTooltip",
},

// Define method on mouse on the field event
showHelpTooltip: function() {
    // You can get text for help info from language file or hard code here
    // var content = app.lang.get('LBL_SOME_HELP_TEXT', this.module);
    var content = 'Help Text Is Here';
    this.$el.find(".help-class").popover({title: 'Help', content: content, placement: 'left'});    
    this.$el.find(".help-class").popover('show');
},

// Define method on mouse leave from field event
hideHelpTooltip: function() {
    this.$el.find(".help-class").popover('hide');   
},

// Some code after

I hope you'll find it useful.

Hi guys,

You guys are really helpful . But i'm afraid i didn't get the exact output. But I managed to do what you gys suggested and got popovers. Let me give you a pictorial representation  of my question

So you can see, next to the name field , I have a   symbol, and when I hover my mouse pointer, I need to display a text in a popup window where it is written "his is custom text" (like a title property in html img tag) 

Please help.

Thank you,

Anoop