Provide users with contextual help

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Many of the modeler fields and its usage is very complex due to the nature of usage of the bpmn engine. (not a negative, just a fact of mature systems):

Describe the solution you’d like

Would be great if we could have a configurable helptext button that can be injected into every input that allows the user to select to grab some quick context of what is expected for the field.

This would be something that the community can built out with different versions of complexity and tailor for their internal use cases and user base.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

• Provide better linking and contextual help without the need for configuration.

Additional context

Example, illustrating the issue for the variables field shown above: What are my options? I need to refer back to docs (and I cannot really because the link does not exist).

Would be great that when we say int he config to add/inject the help it just adds a small “?” like button next to the input that a user can select (or whatever UI equiv would accomplish the same goal). The goal is not to have the text constantly visual, and thus clutter the UI; it should only show when the user needs some additional quick reference info about the input field.

[ingorichtsmeier]

Maybe customers exchange the links into the camunda docs with links into their wiki.

A central collection with all links links (maybe in a property file) would help to maintain them.

[nikku]

Thanks for the detailed examples.