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The Help Facility › Creating Map-Level Help › Creating the Text of the Help Message

Creating the Text of the Help Message

Steps

To create and store the help text, perform the following steps:

  1. Sign on to IDD
  2. Enter the following all at once, as illustrated on the following sample screen: 
    ADD MODULE your-maphelp-text-module LANGUAGE IS HELP MODULE SOURCE FOLLOWS
     The text of your help message 
MSEND.

    Important: If a line of help text exceeds 72 characters, it will be truncated when it is displayed as help for the map.

  3. Save the module

Sample Screen

                          IDD 15.0 ONLINE      NO ERRORS      DICT=SYSDICT      1
    ADD MODULE MAP-HELP-EXAMPLE LANGUAGE IS HELP MODULE SOURCE FOLLOWS

       THIS IS HELP FOR THE ENTIRE MAP.
    MSEND.