How to change dynamically the help text of a variable on a portal form?

[Smith Johnson]

Hello,

is there any way to change dynamically the help text of a variable on a catalog item on portal???

For example, based on the "Activity" field, I would like to change dynamically the help text on the "Additional Information" field.

Thank you for your assistance,

Smith.

[Jaspal Singh · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Unfortunately that is not possible. All you can do is use showFieldMsg() instead in a Client script.

[Smith Johnson]

Thanks this might help also 🙂

[Chris Hatch]

For anyone finding this thread, I was able to solve this issue using the .getField() function to dynamically add/change a field's help text. 

Example:

    var f = g_form.getField("field_name");
    f.expand_help = true;
    f.instructions = "<p>information text</p>";
    f.help_tag = "More information";

I only tested this for Service Portal. 

[Afsar2]

For me following is not working. I thinkg g_form.getField() is deprecated.

g_form.getField("field_name");

 Any examples of using g_form.getHelpTextControl()?