Smart Help Designer

This page allows you to design the help ilbo of the activity. You have to specify the stored procedure name to get the header, multiline and property page details of the help ilbo. Once the details are fetched you can modify the details of control and grid column.

Select the “Create Smart Help” hyperlink at the bottom of the “Select Activity” page.

The “Smart Help Designer” page appears.

Enter the following details in the “Help ILBO Description” group box:

Help ILBO Description

A unique name of the help ilbo.

The system displays the following in the “Help ILBO Description” group box.

Help ILBO Code

The code identifying the help ilbo.

The system displays the following in the “ILBO Associated To” group box.

Activity Description	The name of the activity for which the help ilbo to be designed.
Activity Name	The description of the activity.
Component Description	The name of the component.
Component Name	The description of the component.

Enter the following details in the “Screen Details” group box:

Stored Proc. Name	The stored procedure name defined for the help ilbo.
Update Existing Help ILBO
Task Name	The task name of the help ilbo.
OU Instance Name	Use the drop-down list box to select the organization unit (OU) instance name for the help ilbo. The combo is loaded with the values as defined in the “Masters”.

The Smart Help Designer page has 2 tabs.

Tab: Screen Details

Click the “Get Details” button to get the details of the help screen.

Based on the details entered, system retrieves the data and displays in the multiline.

The system displays the following in the “Help Screen Header Details” multiline.

Control ID

A unique identification number of the controls in the help screen.

Enter the following details in the “Help Screen Header Details” multiline:

Control Type	Use the drop-down list box to select the control type. The combo is loaded with the values as defined in the “Masters”. More Details.
Caption	The caption name of the control.
Row No.	The position of the control in row wise.
Col No	The position of the control in column wise.
Visible Length	The visible length of the control.

The system displays the following in the “Help Screen Header Details” multiline.

Data Type

The data type specified for the control.

Precision

The precision value of the datatype.

For example: If the datatype is specified as .00, the system displays the precision value as 2. If the datatype is specified as .000, the system updates the precision value as 3.

Enter the following details in the “Help Screen Header Details” multiline:

Precision Type	Use the drop-down list box to select the precision type defined for the control in the help screen. The combo is loaded with the values as defined in the “Masters”.
Default Value	The default value for the control.
Sample Data	The sample data for the control.
UDD Name	The User Defined Datatype (UDD) name of the control.
UDD Length	The total length defined of the user defined datatype.

Enter the following detail in the “Multiline Details” group box:

No. of Visible Rows

The number of rows to be visible in the multiline of the help screen.

The system displays the following in the multiline.

Control Name

The name of the control to be displayed in the multiline.

Enter the following details in the multiline:

Column Ordinal	The sequence number of the column to be displayed in the multiline.
Column Caption	The caption name for the control.

The system displays the following in the multiline.

Column Type

The type of column inserted in the multiline.

Enter the following details in the multiline:

Visible Length

The visible length of the column.

The system displays the following in the multiline.

BT Data Type

The datatype for the business term specified to the control.

Precision

The precision value of the datatype.

For example: If the datatype is specified as .00, the system displays the precision value as 2. If the datatype is specified as .000, the system updates the precision value as 3.

Enter the following details in the multiline:

Precision Type

Use the drop-down list box to select the precision type defined for the column in the help screen. The combo is loaded with the values as defined in the “Masters”.

Click the “Save” button to save the details of the help screen.

Tab: Property Page

Enter the following details in the header:

Control Name	Use the drop-down list box to select control name to which the properties has to be defined. The combo is loaded with the values as defined in the “Masters”.
View Name	Use the drop-down list box to select the view name of the control. The combo is loaded with the values as defined in the “Masters”.

The system displays the following in the multiline.

Property Name

The property name those defined for the control.

Enter the following details in the multiline:

Value

The values to be defined for the control properties.

The system displays the following details in the multiline.

Description

The description of the control property.

Click the “Save” button to save the property details of the control.

The details of the Control Type

Control Type	Description
RSAttachDoc	To define file upload control.
RSButton	To define button control.
RSCheck	To define checkbox control.
RSCombo	To define combo control.
RSComboUI	To define the combo control mapped to the UI task.
RSDisplayOnly	To define non editable control.
RSEdit	To define editable text box.
RSEditHelp	To define a text box with help icon.
RSEditUI	To define a text box with On Enter task.
RSEditUIHelp	To define a text box with help icon mapped to the UI task.
RSFiller	To define an empty space between the controls.
RSGrid	To define multiline control.
RSHelp	To define help control.
RSHidden	To define hidden control.
RSLink	To define a link control.
RSListEdit	To define an autocomplete text box.
RSListEditUI	To define an autocomplete text box mapped to the UI task.
RSReportButton	To launch a report by clicking the button.
RSReportLink	To launch a report by clicking the link.
RSTextArea	To define the text area control.