topic Re: Need to change icon tooltips in Alfresco Archive

Need to change icon tooltips

mpb — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:20:08 GMT

I'm new to Alfresco configuration, so bear with me. I've searched for an answer to this, but nothing I've found works.I want to change the tooltips (the text that pops up when I hover over the icons) for the document icons, e.g., the icons for edit-online, edit-offline, download. These strings are d

Re: Need to change icon tooltips

tejaswini — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:15:57 GMT

hello…
   have u solved the problem????
   i am also trying to do some customizations. and want to do something like u only…. so do i have to write the .properties file or i have to change or add i the same .properties file? if i have to write new file then what the file name will be and that time all the previous properties will be available to me or not???
   thanks in advance.

Re: Need to change icon tooltips

mpb — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:14:16 GMT

No, I haven't solved the problem yet.

I was hoping to hear from someone with experience customizing Alfresco on this forum, but … not yet.

Re: Need to change icon tooltips

zaizi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:42:21 GMT

That is how you do it for normal bundles. The tool tips are included in the documentlist.get.properties webscript. Thus, you'll need to follow the process for extending web-extention web script and copy the properties file into it.

Re: Need to change icon tooltips

mpb — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:48:41 GMT

Thank you for the information.

For now, I'll wait on creating a webscript just to change the tooltips. Seems like a lot of work for not much value-added.

Re: Need to change icon tooltips

mikeh — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:52:37 GMT

Those messages live within the Share application, not the Explorer (/alfresco) application. Therefore, you need to put the updated file into $ALFRESCO_HOME/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/org/alfresco/site-webscripts/components/documentlibrary

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Need to change icon tooltips

mpb — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:17:24 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion.

I tried it out. I put my changed tooltips in the file $ALFRESCO_HOME/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/org/alfresco/site-webscripts/components/documentlibrary, then restarted Alfresco.

No luck. The original tooltips were still shown.

Is there some other change I need to make?

Re: Need to change icon tooltips

mikeh — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:34:59 GMT

Check the notes here if you're using Tomcat 6: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6

Thanks,
Mike