RE: Is there a way to increase the default size of the Field Help window?
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It would be nice for the Entry Form Field Help to open in a larger window by default especially for those fields with a lot of help info. Is there anyway to have the widow open with a larger default size? Thanks!
It wouldn’t be too difficult to hack this using a userscript with a browser extension such as Tampermonkey.
All you would need to do is overwrite the global function `nlFieldHelp`, and change the numbers 400 and 150 in the third from last line to your desired width and height.
It’s not recommended, but probably worst case is it could break the field help in a future release and you would need to deactivate the user script.
function nlFieldHelp(windowTitle, fieldId, flhId, fld, helpTopic, company, formType, formTemplateId, record, isTransactionForm, formTitleTranKey, formTitle, fieldLabelTranKey, fieldLabel) {
//See FlhUrlParameters.java for param definitions
var url = NS.Help.getFieldHelpUrl({
id: fieldId,
flhid: flhId,
parameters: {
"topic" : helpTopic,
"c" : company,
"ft" : formType,
"ftmp" : formTemplateId,
"r" : record,
"tr" : isTransactionForm,
"fttk" : formTitleTranKey,
"ftt" : formTitle,
"fltk" : fieldLabelTranKey,
"fl" : fieldLabel
}
});
nlExtOpenWindow(url, 'fieldhelp', 400, 150, fld, "no", windowTitle, {}, fld);
return false;
}
Sam-I-Am
are people that lazy for even to scroll?
Brad
No one should have to scroll or resize the tiny little window that pops up for help, when the technology and how how has existed for decades to appropriately size UI elements based on their content and the browsers reported real estate automatically without the end user input.
I refuse to live in a weak UI/UX world and NS is no example of excellence in either area.