You can add hints, help tooltips, or placeholders to form fields. This functionality allows making forms more helpful and informative.
The table below contains descriptions of the available help elements.
Element | Description |
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Hint | Appears when you point a cursor to the field title. |
Placeholder | A ghost text presented in an input field before you start typing. ![]() |
Help | Appears when you click on the tooltip near the field title. |
Role required: admin. |
To add a hint, please complete the steps below:
To add a placeholder, please complete the steps below:
You can add a placeholder only to the fields implemented as an input field (text input fields, numeric fields, and so on). It does not work on reference fields, choice lists, or date pickers. To obtain more information about column types, please refer to the Column Types article. |
To add a help tooltip, please complete the steps below:
Field | Mandatory | Description | ||
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Table | N | If you need to override a help element inherited from the parent table, specify the table to define a different help element. The specified table has a higher priority. See the example in the Extension and Overriding section for more clarity. | ||
Column | Y | Specify the field to add a help element to. You can add more than one help element to one column. If you need to add help element to different columns, create separate records for this. | ||
Hint | N | Specify hint text. This hint will appear when you point a cursor to a field. This field is of the Translated Text type, so you can type localized messages here. To learn how to add message translations, please refer to the Interface localization article section. | ||
Placeholder | N | Specify placeholder text. It is displayed in the field before you start typing. This field is of the Translated Text type, so you can type localized messages here. To learn how to add message translations, please refer to the Interface localization article section.
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Help | N | Specify help tooltip text. It is displayed within the question icon near the field (see the screenshot above). This field is of the Translated Text type, so you can type localized messages here. To learn how to add message translations, please refer to the Interface localization article section. |
Help elements can be extended from parent tables if they are extendable (the Is Extendable attribute is enabled). Also, help elements inherited from parent tables can be easily overridden.
Consider an overriding use case: