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

Creating the Text of the Help Message

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

Steps

  1. Sign on to IDD
  2. Enter the following: 
    ADD MODULE your-fieldhelp-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 FIELD-HELP-EXAMPLE LANGUAGE IS HELP MODULE SOURCE FOLLOWS

       THIS IS HELP FOR A SINGLE FIELD
    MSEND.