Need to update Typeahead Search Placeholder Title

[Giuliana Martin]

Hello,

I am looking to update the placeholder text in the Typeahead Search widget from "Search" to "How can we help?" that is located in the header. Does anyone know how to achieve this?

Thank you,

Giuliana

[Sharad S · Accepted solution]

Hi @Giuliana Martino ,

I checked in my instance. Not sure why it's not showing widget options like on the homepage type-ahead search widget but you can use system messages. But be careful it is impacted to other areas as it is a sort of global change. Pls ignore duplicate screenshots!

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[Mark Roethof]

Hi there,

Sharad is correct. When following UI Message approach, something like below could be the result:

I just wanted to add two things.
1) Search is a pretty generic term, so it might be used in several different places in the instance. So any update to the UI Message, will reflect on all of those other places. Be aware of that!
2) For related questions like these, you might want to read:
- 2021-05-18 Q: Help!!! (How) can I translate this? A: Have you had a look at I18N Debugging?

If my answer helped you in any way, please then mark it as helpful.

Kind regards,
Mark
2020-2022 ServiceNow Community MVP
2020-2022 ServiceNow Developer MVP

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