how about adding an alternative to the context sensitive setting where the visibility of a helptip can be expressed in PHP (like regular blocks). i would use this to add a helptip to all 'forum node view' pages, for example.

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Dave Cohen’s picture

Dave Cohen commented

My original thinking on this was "because you can already do it using the block config." Helptip gives you a way (using weights) to ensure that a certain help tip appears only in a certain help tip block. Then you can use the block config to ensure the block appears only where it belongs.

In my opinion this is better than reimplementing and re-supporting the functionality. Is that good enough for you?

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented
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yeah, good enough. i didn't think of that.

i am still waffling back and forth on whether helptips as blocks is a good idea. sometimes i wish it would just be a UI for hook_help() but i know that there are advatages to each. at times, storing these as nodes and exposing as blocks is UI clutter. i might prefer and a body and a PHP textarea which returns TRUE/FALSE. and the result is injected via hook_help. anyway, just talking aloud.