Hi all, I am quite new to Sharepoint and am on a steep learning curve. I am using Sharepoint Server 2013. Currently I am creating a wiki library that will house all our organisation’s policies. I would like to have certain words within the wiki text that people can point to with their mouse and a definition of that word will “popup” in a box.
I know that if I add a link to the word I can then use the “definitions” option to achieve this goal. However this has two draw backs:
1. the definition has to be quite short and I need to be able to create longer explanations for some of our technical terms.
2. I have to enter this in every time I use that word on a wiki page, this provides plenty of scope for typing errors and means that should we want to amend the definition we would need to manually go and find every occurrence of this word and change each one of them.
Creating a list with each word as the title and a column for the definition seems like a logical way to store the information but I have no idea how to get that definition into a popup box that appears when users hover over the word. I also wondered about creating the definitions as reusable content but again I don’t know how to get that it into a popup box and make it appear when needed.
I can simply link the word to the definition in the list however this requires users to navigate away from the text they are reading which is unhelpful.
Also I would need it to be reasonably quick and easy for non-IT people to add these popups when they are creating the wiki pages.
Can anyone help me to get this working?
