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#38528 Possibility for Description of Basic Information Fields in ATS

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Environment Information

Joomla! version
4
PHP version
8
Akeeba Ticket System version
5.2.4

Latest post by dunwin on Monday, 13 February 2023 08:34 CST

dunwin

When you add a custom field to ATS you can put a description of the field in. This shows under the field value. This is very useful for advising our users how to fill in or select an option for the field.

However, with the Basic Information fields i.e. Title, Public/Private and Priority, you do not have that option. Is there a possibility to put a description under these fields to indicate to users how they should complete/selection options?

See screenshot 

Kind regards

David

 David Unwin - London UK

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

No, these fields do not have a description attribute in the form's XML file and Joomla does not allow you to override the XML form files.

However, these fields are self-explanatory. Everyone understands what title and body is. Priority is likewise self-explanatory, especially with the context afforded by the drop-down.

If you want to give instructions to your users you can of course edit the ATS category, Ticket Options, and set the Default new post text. This is what we do in the Akeeba Backup for Joomla category, for example, to communicate that we'd like the user to upload the backup log file. The vast majority of people actually do read this text. There's a 3% which neither reads it, nor overwrites that text. You will always have these people. It's a fact of life.

Also note that you can publish a custom HTML module at the top of the new ticket page as explained in https://www.akeeba.com/documentation/ats-for-joomla/component-custom-module-positions.html. The custom module position is ats-newticket-top. As you can see, we are using this on our own site.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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dunwin

Nicholas,

Thanks for the explanation and rational....We do have a few 3% users!!!

Kind regards

David

 David Unwin - London UK

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