To create or edit user-defined F9 help:You can create your own F9 help for fields. For example, you can enter user-defined instructions that are specific to your company's operations.
If you have created user-defined help for a field, the system displays this help when you press F9 in that field. In the screen title, the asterisk (*) preceding and "User version" following the field ID indicate that you are viewing user-defined help. Use the Eclipse Version hot key to display the system help for this field and the User Version hot key to re-display the user-defined help.
Users must be assigned the HELP.EDIT authorization key to create user-defined F9 help.
To create or edit user-defined F9 help:
Position the cursor on the field for which you want to create user-defined help and press Shift-F9.
The system displays the user-defined version of the help, if one already exists. Otherwise, the system displays the Eclipse version of the help.
Edit the text displayed on the screen in one of the following ways:
Manually type the text you want to enter.
Upload a .txt file from your PC by using the hidden Alt-L for upload hot key and entering the DOS path to the file you want to upload. For example, enter c:/text/note.txt. Use forward slashes in the path name and be sure to include the .txt extension, or the upload will not work.
Copy and paste word processing text into the F9 help screen. For copying and pasting to work, from the Eterm menu bar select Configure, then select Communications, and then click the Enable Edit box.
When typing, uploading, or pasting text, be aware that the F9 help screen does not have all the features of a word processor, nor does it work like a typical word processor. Adhere to the following guidelines:
Pressing Enter within a paragraph does not cause the following text to wrap to the next line.
Pressing Enter at the end of text does cause the cursor to wrap to the start of the next line.
The Tab key does not work.
The Backspace key does not delete text.
The Delete key works normally.
Bullets do not upload as bullets.
To move text to the next line, press the Insert key, place the cursor at the start of the text to be moved, and press the Spacebar until the text wraps.
To insert a blank line between paragraphs, press Alt-Insert.
To remove a blank line, place the cursor in the line and press Alt-Delete.
If you upload text into a Help Document Maintenance screen that contains existing text, the uploaded text will replace everything on the screen.
When copying and pasting text with Eterm for Windows, you can paste new text at the end of the existing text. Just be sure to position the cursor correctly.
Press Esc.
The system displays the following prompt: Item changed. Update file?
At the prompt, enter Y.
The system saves the updated text as the User version of the help.
Note: Regardless of whether you edited the User version or the Eclipse version of the help, the system saves your changes as the User version.
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