Dynamic Help Text

Hi,
I want to build a dynamic help text for displayed items (may be like bubble help or a small popup window).
The text of the help should result from a query (i.e. comment on column in the database).
Is there an example or can anyone please help me.
Thank you
Siegwin

May be this can help you (even if i am not 100% convinced that on Apex 3.2 Ajax is the best approach for doing this...).
TRICK: Dynamic Item Help Text as Tooltip
AFAIK there is no supported way of "seeding" page items help text with the comments taken from the user_col_comments view (or another of the kind), however if i had a large application (>10 tables) i'd try with a direct update of the apex tables even if this practice is officially discouraged, but in that case you'd need to have access as privileged user.
There are chances that apex repository views or part of them can be made updatable in the future, in that case this task will become far easier and less risky.
Flavio
http://oraclequirks.blogspot.com

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0
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