Publisher review:RichHelpTip is the first fully integrated help system for the ASP.NET platform. RichHelpTip is the first fully integrated help system for the ASP.NET platform. Using it, developers can easily add pop-up user assistance right within a specific web form, meaning that the end user has help right where they need it.
RichHelpTip fully supports localization, so the help tips can be written in multiple languages and where the most appropriate language is displayed to the end user. RichHelpTip™ is cross-browser and has been developed specifically for Internet Explorer, Netscape, Safari, Mozilla, Firefox and Konqueror.
ASP.NET Developer Benefits
- Out-of-the-box context-sensitive help
- Integrates seamlessly with any web form
- Quick and simple to get going – single-file installation with loads of samples
- A broad interface for customization, with design-time support
- No need to write or understand JavaScript or client-side scripting
- An instant user interface for helping users understand your forms
- A simple format for the help text, entirely separate from the code and ASP.NET page
- Simple customization to tailor the user interface and behavior
- Strong cross-browser support
- Straightforward forms integration
- Help tip content can be loaded from the hard drive, a SQL Server database, an Oracle database, or an Access database
Business Benefits
- Reduce intranet and Internet web application development timescales and costs
- Reduce web application support costs through a self-explanatory user interface
- Rich Windows-like applications within an intranet and Internet site, reducing client-application installation costs
- Increased efficiency of information processing by end-users
- A more friendly user interface for end-users and web site visitors
- Reusable and adaptable across multiple applications, including secure sites
- Low training costs - the web application explains itself
- Users can help themselves, rather than requiring support from high-cost developers
End User Benefits
- Detailed explanations of what each form field does, and why it exists
- A mechanism to give feedback to the help tip authors on the value of their content
- Requires no legacy plugins (or Java)
- A consistent and familiar user interface (like Microsoft Windows®)
- A user interface with stylistic consistency with the host web site
- Intelligently adaptable, providing support for multiple web browsers
Professional End-User Features
- Instant pop-up help. Display context sensitive help on web forms, right where they're needed using RichHelpTip™.
- Opening behavior. Specify how each RichHelpTip™ opens - with a click on a Help button, with a click on the related form element (e.g. a TextBox), by pressing the F1 key, or when the pointer rolls over the Help button.
- Styling, size and colors. Every aspect of the help tip, from the typeface, to the background color, to the size can be set using a broad range of properties.
- Place anywhere. Help tips can be placed anywhere on the page, and work much like validation controls. You just place it on the page, and hook it up to the control to which it relates.
- Formatted, rich online help. RichHelpTip™ fully supports help tips that contain formatted text and images.
- Related links. Each RichHelpTip™ can be configured to display a series of related links to which the user can refer if they need more assistance or information.
- Context-sensitive. RichHelpTip™ is not designed to provide a single help button for each page, it is designed to provide help for each form element. This is true, fine-grained context sensitive help.
Highly Usable User Interface
- Rapid help display. Help tips are displayed without the need to load anything from the server. To all intents and purposes, it is instant.
- Always on top. The ability to prevent other web form elements from appearing over the opened help tip.
- RichHelpTip™ provides three levels of browser support to ensure the best possible experience. We have solved the browser issues, so you don't have to.
- Keyboard integration. Help tips can be opened using the F1 key whilst focus is on a form field.
- Auto-resizing. Help tips automatically resize vertically to fit the text they contain, making efficient use of space.
- Scrolling control. You can specify whether to allow scrolling on help tips or not.
- Feedback. RichHelpTip™ not only offers a simple way to make applications easier to use, it also completes the feedback loop by making it easy to collect user ratings of your documentation. Each help tip can optionally contain a question - "Did this help? Yes / No". You can collect this data and report on it.
RichHelpTip is a ASP.NET script for Development Tools scripts design by Richer Components.
It runs on following operating system: Windows.
RichHelpTip is the first fully integrated help system for the ASP.NET platform.
Operating system:Windows
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