Field Level Help

With Field Level Help it is possible to obtain a range of useful information about a field. Some of this information is intended for users (a field description can explain what data users should enter in the field for instance); some information is useful for Administrators (back-end details which are necessary when referencing the field for a wide range of administrative purposes).

Field Level Help details include:

• A field description.
• The (back-end) name of the module in which the field is located (e.g. eparties).
• The (back-end) name of the tab on which the field is located (e.g. QryPerTab).
• The field's (back-end) column name.
• Its Type (e.g. Text) and Kind (e.g. Atom).
• Its Lookup Name and Lookup Level.

To display Field Level Help for a field, either:

• Use the F1 key:
  1. Place the cursor in a field.

  2. Press the F1 key.

-OR-

• Use the What's This button:
  1. Click .
  2. Click a field.

The Field Level Help displays in a pop-up window:

Here we see the Field Level Help for the First: (Person Details) field in the Parties module. It was accessed while the Parties module was in Search mode.

We know it was in Search mode because the Control and Tab names are preceded by Qry; if the Field Level Help had been accessed while the module was in any other mode, the prefix would be All.

Field Level Help for First: (Person Details) reveals that:

• The field description is: The person's first name. Authorised users can add their own field description here.

  Tip: It is possible to have a field's description display automatically at the bottom of a module window whenever the cursor is in the field. See Show a field's description in a module window

• The back-end name of the Parties module is eparties.
• In Search mode the field is located on the QryPerTab.
• The column name for First: (Person Details) is NamFirst.
• This is a text field.
• It belongs to a Lookup List called First Name and it is in the first level of the Lookup List.

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