"Help Text" for fields in the studio

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We have entered the Help Text for our custom file. The text is longer and it is storing only the half of text.

How to increase the length of text? :thinking: :pray:

Help Text appears temporarily while a user hovers over the field and can be used to prompt the user for the type of input desired.

I think I found it.

Go to DB → Find fields_meta_data table

Change the varchar size to 5000

ALTER TABLE fields_meta_data
  MODIFY COLUMN help VARCHAR(5000)

Edit: that did not help. :face_exhaling:

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Does anyone know how to do it? :thinking:

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You can add an “info” icon to each field using the popupHelp vardef property. Hovering it will display a popup with text.

Example:

You can do it also in custom/Extension/…/Vardef…

popup

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Thank you! Will it store large text and display it when click on :information_source: icon?

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Probably it would handle any length, yes. :white_check_mark:

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Yes, it is storing large text.

In language file, I create the new label.

‘LBL_LONG_TEXT’ => ‘Add your text here’,

In vardefs.php file, added the popupHelp

‘popupHelp’ => ‘LBL_LONG_TEXT’,

Do QR&R every time you update the text.