I suggest the capability to designate a Text/Formula field in a DB as the “Hint” field for the DB. The hint field’s contents would be displayed in a hint balloon whenever the entity name or link is hovered-over, in any view (e.g. in a relation cell in a Table). Use case: I create “Icon” Formula fie…

Are you suggesting that the hint would ideally be definable per entity?

Why? I think per-Database field. If you know outcome you can describe it in this hint.

[image] Chr1sG: Are you suggesting that the hint would ideally be definable per entity? Ideally the hint content could be customized for what exactly is hovered-over. To be truly flexible that would require the possibility to define a separate hint (Formula) for every field in a DB. Or else …

I agree that there would ideally be a hint for every field, as well as a hint for the database. But if you’re suggesting using text fields as holders for hints, this implies that you need 2n+1 fields to support n functional fields :thinking: And I don’t think it is likely that users want the hint …

You didn’t misunderstand – I just hadn’t thought through all the ways this might work. I agree that defining a new, separate field for (potentially) every existing field in a DB is unwieldy. The first level is just the ability to have a static description for every field (e.g. “Date person regist…

Some good news - that’s done :slight_smile: [image] CHANGELOG: October 20, 2022 / Customize mentions, Field description Changelog nail_care Customize Fields for Entity mentions [customize-units-mentions] Wouldn’t it be nice to see something apart from the name…

[DONE] "Hint" field for entities

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Polina_Zenevich October 25, 2022, 1:45pm 7

Some good news - that’s done

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[DONE] "Hint" field for entities

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