Database Reference
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5.
Click
Create Region
.
Notice that when you run page 210, you see the region title Help rendered with a >
next to it at the bottom of the Manage Tickets region. The newly created Help region
was created as a subregion, and therefore it appears within its parent region. Clicking
the > expands the region; thus, the help text is only displayed when the user explicitly
requests it. Currently, the Help region doesn't have any help text. You seed the item-
level help text in the next section. You can add page-level help by editing the page
definition and entering text into the Help Text input of the Help section.
Seeding Help Text
Notice that not all the items are shown in the Help region. This is due to the fact that
some help text was added to this region when the UI Defaults were defined, but the
other items' help text is still empty. Help text defined in the UI Defaults is automatic-
ally pulled into any form that is built using those defaults. You can manually add help
text by editing each item. You can also seed any APEX items that don't have help text
already assigned using yet another APEX wizard:
1. At upper right in the Application Builder, click the
Application Util-
ities
icon, as shown in
Figure 6-73
,
to go to the Application Utilities
home page.
Figure 6-73.
Locating the Application Utilities icon
2. In the
Page Specific Utilities
region at right of the page, click
Item
Utilities
.
3. Click
Grid Edit of all Item Help Text
.
The report here shows only those items that already have help text
associated with them. However, you can use one of the buttons on this
form to seed all empty help text in your application with a single de-
fault value. There is no perfect value with which to seed the help text,
