Modifiable contextual help content provided in-line within an application

A method, comprising:

• generating, in response to detecting selection of a page element on a display screen, an icon that indicates whether contextual content associated with the page element is available, wherein the page element is a display element of a graphical user interface (GUI) for an application that is textual content or a control function of the application, wherein the icon is selected for generation, from amongst a plurality of icons, based upon a combination of (i) a determination of whether a description is available for the page element, and (ii) a determination of whether a set of comments submitted by users are available for the page element;
• generating and displaying, by at least a processor, a context panel in response to detecting an input associated with the icon, wherein generating the context panel includes generating a first tab and a second tab, and wherein the context panel is displayed in a popup window visually in front of the GUI on the display screen,
• responsive to the description being available for the page element, generating and transmitting a first query to a first database to retrieve the description for the page element,
• responsive to the set of comments being available for the page element, generating and transmitting a second query to a second database to retrieve the set of comments associated with the page element,
• populating the first tab to include the description of the page element retrieved from the first database, and populating the second tab to include the set of comments associated with the page element retrieved from the second database, and wherein generating the context panel includes generating the context panel separate from a displayed page that includes the icon, and
• dynamically modifying, by at least the processor, the application by inserting a tag program code of the application that when triggered by the input causes the context panel to be generated and displayed on the display screen.

A system comprising:

• context logic configured to display contextual help content for a page element of an application by generating a context panel with a first tab and a second tab in a popup window on a display screen,
• wherein the context logic is further configured to, responsive to (a) a description being available for the page element and (b) a set of comments submitted by users being available for the page element, (i) generate and transmit a first query to a first database to retrieve the description for the page element, and (ii) generate and transmit a second query to a second database to retrieve the set of comments associated with the page element,
• wherein the first tab is populated to include the description of the page element and wherein the second tab is populated to include the set of comments associated with the page element retrieved from the second database, wherein the page element is in-line within a graphical user interface (GUI) of the application and is textual content or a control function of the application,
• wherein the context logic is configured to dynamically modify the application by inserting a tag into program code of the application that when triggered by a selection causes the context logic to generate and display the context panel,
• wherein the context logic is configured to dynamically modify the application according to a user input by (i) establishing one or more entries in a database for the contextual help content of the page element and (ii) configuring the application with the tag to invoke the context logic to generate the context panel upon detecting the selection;
• and
• icon logic configured to display an icon in response to detecting the selection of the page element, wherein the icon logic is configured to select the icon for display, from amongst a plurality of icons, based upon a combination of (i) a determination of whether the description is available for the page element, and (ii) a determination of whether the set of comments are available for the page element.