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Define Field-Level Help

Define custom help text for your organization’s fields to provide users with a helpful description. Help text can be defined for standard and custom fields on all detail and edit pages where the field displays. Users can view the field-level help text by hovering over the Info icon next to the field.

Required Editions

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: All Editions except Database.com
User Permissions Needed
To define or change field-level help: Customize Application
  1. From the management settings for the field’s object, go to Fields.
  2. Click Edit next to the field.
  3. In the Help Text field, enter the text you want displayed.
    The text displays when a user hovers the mouse over the Info icon that appears next to the field on a detail or edit page. You can enter up to 510 characters.
  4. Click Save.
Note
Note If the object you’re modifying is exposed in an Experience Cloud site, field-level help is visible to site members, including unlicensed users, partners, and customers. Make sure the information you provide in field-level help accounts for all audiences and doesn’t contain business-sensitive information.

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