Built-In Infotips

MYOB Advanced offers context-sensitive Help infotips to give you an explanation of a UI element while you are still viewing a form. You can view infotips for boxes, check boxes, and option buttons that appear in the areas and on the tabs of most forms, as well as the columns of tables on these forms. (See the Infotip Limitations section of this topic for details.) You access infotips slightly differently for table columns than you do for other elements, but in both cases, you access the infotip for an element by clicking a question mark icon.

The question mark icon appears next to the box, check box, or option button when you hover over the label of the element for 1.5 seconds. The following screenshot shows the icon next to the Customer box.
Figure 1. The question mark icon next to the Customer box


To view the infotip of a column of a table that appears on a form, you first click the header of the table column. The question mark icon is displayed in the bottom left corner of the Sorting and Filtering Settings dialog box, which opens, as the following screenshot shows.
Figure 2. The question mark icon in the Sorting and Filtering Settings dialog box

Infotip Usage

When you click the question mark icon, the system opens the infotip: a pane that partially overlaps the working area of the screen and contains the element's complete description. (See the following screenshot, which shows the infotip for the Customer box.)

Figure 3. The infotip for the Customer box
By using the elements of this pane, you can open help topics related to the UI element's functionality. You can click the arrow in the upper left corner of the pane (see Item 1 in the following screenshot) to open the Help menu, or you can click the link to the form reference topic (Item 2).
Figure 4. Elements you can click to get more information
If you click the arrow, the system opens the Help menu for the form. It includes a list of the links to the Help topics that contain information about the form's functionality (see the screenshot below). For details about the Help menu, see Help. If you click the link to the reference topic for the form, the system opens the topic in a new browser tab.
Figure 5. Help menu with the list of links of the Help topics

To close the pane (or the Help menu, if you have switched to the menu), you click anywhere on the form.

Infotip Limitations

Currently, infotips are not shown for the following elements:

  • The names of tabs on a form
  • Elements on the form title bar, form toolbar, and table toolbar
  • Form-specific commands displayed on the More menu
  • Dialog boxes or elements within them

Also, infotips are not supported for MYOB Advanced forms that are inquiry forms, generic inquiry forms, report forms, or ARM reports.