Is it possible to add help text on a UI Action/ dynamically update that help text?

[Ankit28]

Help text is being purposed on Restart Change Activity UI Action (As it will be doing different tasks at different stages).Please find the attachment for details.

It is possible to add help text for UI Actions similar to form fields using Hint field. I am not sure if we can update the help text dynamically. Does someone know of a solution to update it dynamically?

I am also not sure about the following questions:
1)Is the hover over text on UI Action technically possible?
2)Can we just change the link text to "return to planning" or "return to build" based on the state of the change instead of always displaying "restart change activity"?
3)Here is the HTML from the "restart change activity" UI Action once it is rendered:

Restart Change Activity

There is no hover text, so we would be implementing some highly customized solution via DOM manipulation. Is this a good idea?

I've only done basic things with Prototype, so I'm not sure what's available to us or what we can implement.

[Jim Coyne]

The hover text is defined in the "Hint" field on the UI Action record. You could use DOM manipulation to change the text dynamically, but what you could also do is have multiple versions of the UI Action with different hover text and conditions so the appropriate one would appear for you.

This way you are not "messing" around with things and they will always work regardless of any updates to the platform.

[Aaron40]

Hi Jim,

I don't mean to piggyback on someone else's thread but do you have any reference material for manipulating Doms in ServiceNow?