Editing Form and Field Help Text

Use this procedure to edit the form or field online help for application forms. This is useful to create form and field help for customized Lawson programs and forms. If you edit the form or field help for a delivered Lawson form, that help text will be overwritten when you install the next release.

This procedure depends on the LAHELPTEXT user profile (with a password of LAHELPTEXT). This user profile is delivered with Lawson. However, you must assign the appropriate security class to LAHELPTEXT. The security class must include access to the forms whose help text you want to edit and it must have the Modify Help Text privilege set to Yes. You also must set up the identities and Resource Management information for this user. For more information, see Lawson Administration: Resources and Security.

  1. Log in to a Lawson Interface Desktop (LID) session as LAHELPTEXT and use Form Transfer (F8).
  2. In the Form ID field on the Form Transfer form, type the form ID of the application form whose help text you want to edit. Then, click the OK button or press Enter.
  3. To edit form help, press Help (F1), select H (Entry), and then select A (Form). Press Enter twice when you have finished editing the help text.
  4. To edit field help, tab to the field whose help text you want to edit, press Help (F1), select H (Entry), and then select B (Field). Press Enter twice when you have finished editing the help text.