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.

[subhadeep1618]

Hi @Chris Hatch ,

Your code is working when there is no instruction text on form load.

When I select value as 'new_role' after form load - Screenshot 1

When I select value as 'remove_role' after form load - Screenshot 2

But the issue is:

After selecting 'new_role', if I change selection to 'remove_role', then it is still like Screenshot 1.

Meaning - it is not changing to help text of 'remove_role'.

My code is given below:

if (newValue == 'change_role' || newValue == 'new_role') {
        var infoField = g_form.getField("additional_information");
        infoField.expand_help = true;
        infoField.instructions = "<p>The technical names of the Roles can be written here.</p>";
    } else {
		var infoField = g_form.getField("additional_information");
        infoField.expand_help = true;
        infoField.instructions = "<p>Please indicate the date from when the roles can be removed.</p>";
    }

 Screenshot 1:

Screenshot 2:

[yoli1]

@subhadeep1618 this is not working on sc_task please help

[yoli1]

hi @Chris Hatch not working in sc_task please help

[Alp Utku]

AYou can also create couple label fields to be shown by selection from Activity field.

You could control the visibility of the label fields by UI Policy

[Community Alums]

I think there's a bug in the Community because I couldn't find @Chris Hatch 's original post.

Worked perfectly for me on a Tokyo Patch 5, so a big thank you and summary for my own benefit.

Catalog Client Script: 

var f = g_form.getValue('FIELD_NAME');
if (f) {
  f.help_text = 'OVERWRITE_MSG';
}