Moe, You still need one active link per control. You could use the Active Link on each button to just call a Guide like Misi suggested. Each AL would set the ID of the button to a display only field and call the guide. Then you only need the one AL that finds and displays your help messages.
--- John J. Reiser Remedy Developer/Administrator Senior Software Development Analyst Lockheed Martin - MS2 The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Pay close attention and be illuminated by its brilliance. - paraphrased by me -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 8:33 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Firing One Active Link on Multiple Controls Hi, I would suggest calling an ACTL Guide. This, to my thinking, is a prettier solution than PERFORM-ACTION-ACTIVE-LINK 1 <BtnID>. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se > I have one form that captures user inputs and I am trying to provide > some sort of a help mechanism right next to each field. I created 10 > different controls on the same form. One right next to each field. The > idea is when a user clicks on the help button right next to any field, > there should be a tooltip that displays a description about the field > and what's expected as a valid entry. I created one active link that > does a set field based on a keyword and returns the field ID, then > another set field that does a lookup on the AR System Message Catalog > and return a specific message based on the field ID. After that a > message action displays the message into a tooltip. > Everything works fine, except that I am not really sure how to attach > the same active link to all the controls that I created. I need to > reuse this active line instead of creating one single active link per help > control. > I > was just wondering if is there any way to attach one active link > multiple controls. Any ideas or thoughts would be highly appreciated. > > > > Attached a screenshot for my form > > > > Thanks In Advance. > > Moe. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
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