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but something like “Need Help Text” indicates that the help for that
item needs to be entered:
4. Click
Seed Item Help Text
.
5. Enter
NEED HELP TEXT
for
Default Help Text
in the
Seed Item
Help
section, as shown in
Figure 6-74
,
and click
Apply Changes
.
Figure 6-74.
Seeding item help
The help text has been seeded, and you're taken back to the main re-
port. From here you can narrow the items that are displayed and edit
the help text directly:
6. In the report filter section at the top of the page, enter
210
for
Min-
imum Page Number
, and click
Go
.
At this point, you're viewing all the help text for any item on page 210 or greater in
a single interface. Feel free to change the values for any of the items on page 210 to see
them in the Help region.
Once you've altered and saved your help, run page 210. Note that if you click an in-
dividual item's label on page 210, a pop-up window appears, displaying the help spe-
cific to that item.
The APEX Help Text region automatically displays the help text for a given page
and its associated items. Display of the help text is managed by APEX behind the
scenes. Although it isn't very robust—there is no way to alter the look and feel of the
region with templates or otherwise—there is now no excuse for not adding help to your
application.
