How to Use Special Values

Some special values are also provided by LANSA to control how the Help text is displayed. These special values all begin with $$. Following are a few examples:

Special Value

Effect

$$LANGUAGE

Indicates the language of the help text.

$$FLDNAM

Inserts the name of the field.

$$NOAUTO

Indicates that automatic help text should not be generated.

$$USER

Designates end user help text.

$$TECH

Designates technical help text.

$$RIGHT

Causes help text to be right aligned when displayed.

$$PAGEC

Causes page number to be inserted into the text.

 

For example, you can enter user and technical help as follows:

$$USER

This text is displayed to an end-user when the application executes.

$$TECH

This text is not displayed to the end-user. It is displayed to developers only.

For a complete list of values, refer to the Technical Reference Guide:

Also See

How to Use Special Characters