Using Service Catalog controls with tooltip help

Service Catalog controls allow you to provide tooltip help for an Offering field.

The Service Catalog controls are available in the Application Designer control palette allowing new instances of the controls to be created in the application or dialog.

The Service Catalog controls are analogous to the textbox, combobox, and checkbox controls, and have a prefix of sc.

With the Service Catalog controls, tooltip help is defined using the tooltip property found on the Advanced tab of the attribute property dialog, or it can be retrieved from the MAXMESSAGES table using the tooltipmsggroup and tooltipmsgkey properties.

Tooltip help can contain rich text (HTML tags) to improve the look of the help information.

New messages can be added to the MAXMESSAGES table in the Application Designer application using the Messages action. This allows the messages to be translated into various languages. See the Application Designer help Developing applications topics for more information.

Service Catalog control properties

You can configure the following properties for each of the controls:

tooltip - allows you to specify the control tooltip text (flyover help information) that appears when the user moves the mouse over a field label.
tooltipmsgkey - allows you to specify a tooltip message key that is used with tooltipmsggroup to lookup the control tooltip (flyover help information) from the MAXMESSAGES table. This text is shown when the user moves the mouse over the field label.
tooltipmsggroup - allows you to specify a tooltip message group that is used along with tooltipmsgkey to lookup the control tooltip text (flyover help information) from the MAXMESSAGES table. This text is shown when the user moves the mouse over the field label.

The following example snippet demonstrates the use of the sctextbox, sccombobox, and sccheckboxcontrols:

<sccheckbox dataattribute="alnvalue2" id="bnsmCR_dial_sec1_att2" label="Install DB?"/> 

<sctextbox dataattribute="alnvalue3" id="bnsmCR_dial_sec1_att3" label="Network Zone" 
tooltipmsggroup="pmscoffcat" tooltipmsgkey="networkzone" />

<sctextbox dataattribute="alnvalue6" id="bnsmCR_dial_sec1_att6" label="Project Name" 
tooltip="Name that identifies this catalog request"/>

<sccombobox dataattribute="numvalue1 id="defaultDialogCR_numvaluedom1" label="DB Types" 
lookup="VALUELIST"  tooltip="Database Type"/>

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