CHAPTER 18
Customizing Item Help
A simple but frequent request is for the ability to customize the help displayed when clicking on APEX item labels. By default, this help comes from data set at design time by the developer. However, it’s possible to allow users to maintain this data and display help source from custom content by combining jQuery with database processes.
Define Help Data
A few options exist in regard to where to store help information for items. Each option has advantages and disadvantages, so you need to decide what balance suits your project the best.
Design Time
The Help Text attribute for page items shown in Figure 18-1 is ...
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