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Dynamic help-text with HTML formatting and label template

Arijit KanrarJan 20 2014 — edited Jan 21 2014

I have a lot of page items and depending upon a set "context" the user is in, a particular textfield/select list can mean different things.

To assist the user I want to add helptext that is dynamically generated from the backend using package routines.

Right now I save the helptexts generated in hidden items and make the items helptext point to the item. This works fine but it can be much better if I could use HTML to format them just way we would had we manually written the helptext in the items helptext section.

All HTML tags we add to the helptext show up as bare tags when the user clicks the label.

Is there any way to get the helptext to format using HTML tags thats returned from the backend?

Also on a related note: sometimes an item is required and at other times the same item may be optional. Is there a way I can change the label template of the item dynamically to show this?

I have Application Express 4.1.1.00.23 running on

Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bi

PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production

CORE 10.2.0.4.0 Production

TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production

NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production

Regards,

Arijit

Message was edited by: Arijit Kanrar. Reason: Added APEX and Oracle DB version info.

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