Application Development

Add Column Help Text

A page designer can assign help text to a specific column on a page in a custom WebApp or for the entire system. This type of help, called Dynamic Help or Page Column Help, can be added at the page, the WebApp the system level using catalogs. To view column help, hover over the column heading. The help displays below the Navigation pane in the Information pane. If column help has not been added, the column name and field name display by default.

Refer to Use Catalogs During Application Development for general information.

A page designer can also Add Dynamic Help to a Page, which involves the assignment of help text to a page itself.

Adding Column Help Text requires the completion of three tasks:

  1. Create a Catalog

  2. Assign a Catalog to a Custom WebApp

    OR

    Assign a Custom System Catalog.

  3. Add Page Column Help Text to the WebApp or the System Catalog Level

    OR

    Add Page Column Help Text at the Page Catalog Level.

Add Page Column Text at the WebApp or the System Catalog Level

For page help text to display for a column wherever it appears in a custom WebApp or throughout the entire system, assign page column help text at the WebApp or the system catalog level.

To add dynamic help to a catalog at the WebApp or the System Catalog level:

  1. Select Admin > Translations > Catalogs in the Navigation pane.

  2. Click the Phrases icon for the catalog created for this help.

    NOTE: A new catalog must be created in order to add dynamic help to a column. See Create Catalogs for more information.

    NOTE: If no record exists, the page displays in add mode. Otherwise, click Add.

    View the field descriptions for the Catalog Phrases page

  3. Enter the technical field name for the column to add dynamic help to in the PHRASE field.

    NOTE: For example, KUNNR or Name1. The spacing must be identical to how it appears in the table.

  4. Enter the display name of the column to add dynamic help to in the PHRASE OUT field.

    NOTE: For example, Customer or Name.

  5. Click Save.
  6. Click Cancel to exit add mode.
  7. Click Vertical View for the Catalog Phrase just added.
  8. Click Edit.
  9. Enter the help text to display for the column in the DYNAMIC HELP text box.
  10. Click Save.

Add Page Column Help Text at the Page Catalog Level

For page column help to display for a column only on a specific page in a custom WebApp, add column help text at the page level.

To add dynamic help to a column at the page level:

  1. Access the WebApp page.
  2. Click the Change Settings icon on the Site toolbar.
  3. Select Design from the drop down menu.
  4. Click the Column Properties icon.

  5. Click the Help icon for the column.

    NOTE: If not in Add mode, click the Add button.

    View the field descriptions for the Catalog Phrase Translations (Page Specific) page

  6. Select the the catalog that contains the help to be displayed from the Catalog ID list box.
  7. Enter the text that displays as help in the Dynamic Help Editor field.
  8. Click Save.