idea Consistent 'view help' buttons and tooltips in every pane in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Consistent 'view help' buttons and tooltips in every pane

wayfaringrob — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:26:11 GMT

Pro provides an inconsistent experience when it comes to in-app documentation. Some panes/pane tabs have a '?' in the header:

Some have a '?' button in a different location:

Sometimes that '?' only pertains to one specific parameter:

Some panes have just a plain text link thrown in there somewhere:

And others have no help at all:

For the sake of usability, it would help a lot if the way documentation is presented could be more consistent, and more importantly, added to the panes that lack direct links to documentation that can help understand what's being presented.

Also, many panes supplement the links with an 'i' that doesn't actually require you to open a browser. Sometimes it's to the left:

Other times it's to the right:

Oh, and other times, there is a tooltip without the little 'i' -- which I prefer since the hover target is larger:

I find myself getting easily lost in the online labeling documentation, so something like this applied consistently across the application would be nice, too -- in addition to more consistent linkages to the full documentation.

Re: Consistent 'view help' buttons and tooltips in every pane

JonathanNeal — Wed, 17 May 2023 22:17:07 GMT

FYI @wayfaringrob and others for considering this update,
For Geoprocessing Pane the reason we have the '?' icon lower is that we allow the tool to be embedded into the task pane (Also, Raster Pane, Suitability Pane, and ModelBuilder View). Then help also follows for free with the tool. If reworked, we can pass the information for Framework, but we may need to do something special for Tasks team, because you could have multiple tools in one task.

Re: Consistent 'view help' buttons and tooltips in every pane

KoryKramer — Thu, 18 May 2023 14:49:42 GMT

@wayfaringrob I see you've already kudo'd https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/quot-help-quot-option-for-label-position-settings/idi-p/1211206 which is great for the label-specific part. I just wanted to include that here on this thread for other community members interested in getting directly to specific areas of the label documentation.