Re: Dynamic Updates to Help Text

2006-09-21 Thread Heider, Stephen
Title: RE: Dynamic Updates to Help Text ** Herb, With this approach do you create an ALfor each field that triggers on Gain Focus? Then, the AL performs a Set Fields from your custom help text form? Stephen From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Dynamic Updates to Help Text

2006-09-21 Thread igor ivanov
Simply create View Form: 1. Table name: arschema Key Field Name: schemaid Fields: name, helpText, ... 2. Table name: field Key Field Name: fieldId Fields: fieldName, schemaId, helpText, ... 3. Put them on Console as Tables... Regards, example on: http://winbeing.bravehost.com/ Regards, ii

Re: Dynamic Updates to Help Text

2006-09-21 Thread Heider, Stephen
Title: RE: Dynamic Updates to Help Text ** Dave, I have not implemented server localization before - allinstallations have been in English. Are there any side effects to implementing - are there any other changes that need to be implemented to accommodate? Any gotchas? Thanks. Stephen

Re: Dynamic Updates to Help Text

2006-09-21 Thread Herb Partlow
Title: RE: Dynamic Updates to Help Text ** ** Stephen Yes. Doing this for custom builds is not a big deal. Trying to do this on say an ITSM app would be a very time consuming. Herb -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Dynamic Updates to Help Text - resend

2006-09-21 Thread David Sanders
Title: RE: Dynamic Updates to Help Text ** From: David Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 2:13 PM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: RE: Dynamic Updates to Help Text Hi Stephen No gotchas as far as I know. One other thing that I

Dynamic Updates to Help Text

2006-09-20 Thread Heider, Stephen
List, I think I already know the answer to this, but just in case... The text in the Help Text tab in the Field Properties of a field is displayed when a user clicks the Arrow+Question Mark button in the WUT toolbar and then clicks on top of a field. Is there any other way of changing this text

Re: Dynamic Updates to Help Text

2006-09-20 Thread Rick cook
Title: RE: Dynamic Updates to Help Text ** You know, it would be great if there were Remedy forms in which the Help text resided, so that a subadmin could use the UT to update it. Hmmm...sounds like a nice spare time project... Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList

Re: Dynamic Updates to Help Text

2006-09-20 Thread David Sanders
Title: RE: Dynamic Updates to Help Text ** Hi Stephen You could try using the artext program to extract the field help text, amend it and import into the AR System Message Catalog. I think you would then need to turn on localization on the server for this to work. HTH David

Re: Dynamic Updates to Help Text

2006-09-20 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Dynamic Updates to Help Text ** Stephen: For those who want to change the Help Text. Of course, you could create the second form with the an SQL pull for field names and the help text that goes with them and let them change it that way with an SQL update that would put the new

Re: Dynamic Updates to Help Text

2006-09-20 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Dynamic Updates to Help Text ** Rick: U da man! This is a great idea and goes along with what I just suggested to Stephan. This way you can give a higher level/alternate level of access to those who need to change the Help Text without giving away the farm of sub-administration

Re: Dynamic Updates to Help Text

2006-09-20 Thread Herb Partlow
Title: RE: Dynamic Updates to Help Text ** ** Rick I have done this for all my clients that want help text for fields. I create a field on the form to hold the help text I create 2 buttons (help? and hide help) I created a form to hold the help text When a user clicks on Help