Administering form annotations

Form annotations are additional pieces of information on a form, such as a line or paragraph of text. Use form annotations to provide on-screen instructions to your users.

Form annotations are enabled by default in the base system. To disable them, set the glide.ui.form_annotations system property to false.

Support multiple languages for a form annotation

You can store multiple translations of form annotation text.

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To support multiple languages, use message records to translate annotation text.

프로시저

1. Navigate to All > System UI > Messages.
2. Create a message record for each language you support.
3. On the Message form, set the Key field to a unique identifier for the annotation text.
   The annotation text is a good key. The key must be the same for each translation message for the annotation.
4. Select the appropriate Language.
5. In the Message field, enter the translated annotation text.
6. Edit the form annotation and reference the message key with a gs.getMessage call.
   For example, if the message key is Message key text, enter ${gs.getMessage("Message key text")} in the form annotation.

Administer form annotation types

You can define the form annotation types to control their appearance.

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프로시저

1. Navigate to All > System UI > Form Annotation Types.
2. Set the Active field to false for any types you do not want to use.
3. Click New to add a type.