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# Field-Level Help

Field-level help lets you provide help text detailing the purpose and function of any standard or custom field. Before defining field-level help, review these implementation tips and best practices.

## Implementation Tips

- Field-level help is enabled by default for all editions.
- Field-level help isn’t available for some standard fields, including fields on the User object, system read-only fields, auto-number fields, multi-currency fields, Ideas fields, and Experience Cloud site fields.
- The help text for a field is automatically added to a package when you add the associated field to any AppExchange package.
- In a managed package, the help text is locked to the developer, giving installers full capabilities to change it.
- Field-level help isn’t available for Visualforce pages in Lightning Experience.
- Field-level help is available for Visualforce pages in Salesforce Classic only if the page’s `showHeader` attribute is set to `true`.
- Field-level help on dependent fields appears in Salesforce Classic but not in Lightning Experience.

## Best Practices

- Because your custom help text displays on both edit and detail pages, avoid instructions for entering data. Instead, construct help text that defines the field's purpose, such as:
    
    The maximum discount allowed for this account.
- Provide information in your help text about the attributes of the field, such as:
    
    A detailed description of the purpose for the expense report. Up to 32 KB of data are allowed. Only the first 255 characters display in reports.
- Provide examples in your help text that help users understand the field's meaning clearly, such as:
    
    The four-digit promotional code used to determine the amount charged to the customer, for example, 4PLT (for level-four platinum pricing).
- If your org uses more than one language, provide translations for your Help Text using the Translation Workbench.

#### See Also

- [Custom Help Content](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.customhelp_about.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Tailor help so that users understand how to work within your unique implementation of Salesforce. You can add learning in the flow of work in several ways. Add custom help for a page, app, object, or org level, or provide links to help in the Utility Bar, Path, or as a text box on the page. Show users custom resources in a Lightning Experience welcome mat when they first log in. Or, to reach users with important news, training, and on-boarding information, add micro-learning prompts and walkthroughs to your app.")