A while back, I submitted an ideajam entry requesting the ability to surface field hints/help descriptions from a field in a regular notes form. The details of the request is at
Copy/Paste from ideajam:
In normal notes development, it is easy to provide help details to
the user through field hints and Help description's.
In the Redwiki tutorial found at
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/Building_an_XPage_web_application_from_scratch
The author shows a way to create "artificial fields" including help
details. Then he uses those fields and surfaces them using
dojo.Tooltip. (see screenshot) . This technique shows the power of
dojo.Tooltip. However, it also shows that help is missing from Xpages
controls. The ability to reuse current help descriptions and field hints
would be a great timesaver for the developer and improve user
productivity
Muhammad's approach is a workaround to provide missing
functionality in xpages and it introduces the problem of having too many
fields on a form. Imagine a form with 200 fields and then you need to
add 200 more fields to create help information.....not ideal