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and forms, as well as the form, report, and column attributes available for customizing
forms and reports to suit your needs.
APEX Help
Providing help to end users is an often forgotten and typically tedious task. Developers
typically take the easy route and skip it altogether. Or the task is minimized or cut at
the end of a project. Although APEX can't magically incorporate help into your applic-
ations, it does make it a lot easier for you, as a developer, to do.
Adding a Help Text Region
The APEX Help Text region automatically displays any associated help text for a given
page and its items. It can be placed on any page, including a Global Page. Although
you can choose a region template for a Help Text region, there is no way to change the
style of the actual text. As an example, let's add a Help Text region to page 210 as a
subregion to the master Edit region:
1.
Edit
Page 210
of the application.
2.
Create a new region by clicking the
Create
button at upper right on the page
and selecting
Region on this page
from the drop-down menu.
3.
Select
Help Text
, and click
Next
.
4.
Enter
Help
for the
Title
, set
Region Template
to
Hide and Show Region
,
set
Parent Region
to
Manage Tickets (0)
, and click
Next
. See
Figure 6-72
.
Figure 6-72.
Creating a Help Text region
