Contextual help - Msg box or form?

[Grek]

Hello,
On my project I have +100 fields in 4 tables.


What I would like to do is, in a form, next to each field put a question mark icon and when the user clicks the icon a message box or a form pops up with an explanation of this field.
ie. Field "Verify setup" --> when the user clicks on the icon I'd like him to see a message "To verify the setup, you need to verify this in that order blablabla and ensure that blablabla"
Since each field will have a different description, what would be the easiest way to do what I'm trying to achieve?
Creating an additional table will all my fields ie. desc_Field1, desc_field2, etc then creating a form filtered at launch (ie. clicking on question mark next to field1 would open the form and display desc_field1)?
Thanks,

[John_G]

Hi -

For what you want to do, I think you are on the right track. A form with a "help" table is the more flexible of the two options, since you can put in headers, footers, etc. You can pass the record to be displayed (field name) through the openargs argument of the docmd.openform command. You should open the help form in acDialog mode, so that the user has to close fhe form before continuing.

HTH

John

[orange]

There is a free video here that relates to creating a customized help system. May be useful to see a different approach.
http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/f...ustomhelp.html