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4D v17.4

Overview

Help tips are messages associated with fields and active objects in your forms in order to help users work with your database more productively. They appear in the form whenever the mouse moves over the field or object.

Notes:

Help tips can be globally disabled or enabled for the application using the Tips enabled selector of the SET DATABASE PARAMETER command.
You can set the style and size of the font for the help tips displayed during form execution on the General page of the Database Settings.

You associate help messages with objects in the Form editor either by entering them directly in the Property List, or by inserting a help tip reference created in the Help Tip editor. For more information about associating help tips with database objects, refer to the "Help messages" section in Data entry controls and assistance.

Note: You can also set help tips at the database structure level (see the Field properties section) or dynamically for the process using the OBJECT SET HELP TIP command.