Reference > Helpful Hints
The Helpful Hints box appears on many of the pages most frequently viewed by CISPro Global users. This feature presents information that helps simplify common tasks, and provides a way for global admins to customize instructions for other users at the screen level.
Creating a Helpful Hint
| 1. | On the page on which the hint will be created, click the [new] link in the Hints box |
| 2. | In the Affected ASP Pagename text box, type the name of the page on which the hint should appear |
Pagename is set by default By default, pagename is automatically set to the name of the page on which [new] link is clicked. Change it only if the link should appear on a different page.
| 3. | In the Display Order text box, type as a number the hint's order within the list of hints that appear on the same page |
Display order numbering begins at 0 (e.g., 0 for first, 4 for fifth, etc.).
| 4. | To create a link to a specific topic in the CISPro Global help system, type the topic's file name (without the file extension) in the Topic text box |
Example Type hazard_graphics, not hazard_graphics.htm, or materialview, not materialview.htm.
A topic link is indicated by an underlined question mark (?), which follows the hint. Clicking on the question mark opens the help page that is referenced by the hint.
| 5. | In the Hint Text box, type the hint text that is to be displayed on the page being modified |
| 6. | Click Save |
Editing Existing Hints
Click a hint's [edit] link to modify any element of the hint (an [edit] link is displayed after each hint on a page). Close the Configure Helpful Hints window and refresh the page to view the changes.
Hyperlinks in Hints
Hint Text may be a simple text string, or it may contain a text hyperlink to another CISPro Global page. Create a hyperlink by typing a string in such as sometext <a href="valid.asp">linktext</a> moretext, where sometext and moretext are any text strings valid.asp is the name of the CISPro Global page that the link opens, and linktext is the hyperlink text that is visible to the user.
Example On the main Identity page, to remind users to look in the ChemCat catalog for additional materials, and to enable them to go directly to the ChemCat search screen via a link in the hint, enter the new hint information as follows:
To see more materials, look in the
<a href="search_addon.asp?pageop=first">ChemCat</a> catalog.
This hint would be displayed as "To see more materials, look in the ChemCat catalog. [edit]"
Keep in mind permissions and other considerations when providing users links in hint text. Users may not have access to all pages in the system.
Deleting a Hint
| 1. | On the page on which the hint appears, click the hint's [edit] link |
| 2. | Click the Clear link next to the Search for Helpful Hints bar |
| 3. | Select Helpful Hints > Delete this Helpful Hint from the menu at the top of the window |