Providing guided tooltips to new users

[senordhuff]

Hello,

We are looking for ways to give very clear instructions to new users on how to use our application and enter data. We'd like to display tooltips next to certain fields and automatically hide and display tooltips as they move to new fields. We'd want this to apply to forms or grids depending on the use case. Is this possible with your default tooltips? I didn't see any APIs that support this. Or, do we need to do something similar to what is described in this post to achieve this?
http://forums.smartclient.com/showthread.php?t=30067&highlight=tooltip

[Isomorphic]

The default tooltips don't have the persistent-but-dismissable behavior you're looking for, so the approach described in that related thread is still the right one.

Note that you wouldn't want this behavior mixed up with tooltip-related APIs anyway, since you still want tooltips with a separate, shorter message to be displayed even once the user has dismissed this one-time information bubble.

You could sponsor features in this area - it happens to be a good time for this since we'll be implementing some guided-tour behaviors for Visual Builder in the near future.