Typical Workflow for Working with User Assistance

Understand Oracle JET's user assistance capabilities and how to add user assistance to your Oracle JET application.

To add user assistance to your Oracle JET application, refer to the typical workflow described in the following table:

Task Description More Information

Identify Oracle JET's user assistance capabilities on editable components

Identify the editable components and their messaging APIs.

Understanding Oracle JET's Messaging APIs on Editable Components

Understand Oracle JET editable component validation and messaging process

Understand the normal, deferred, and mixed validation processes and the messaging associated with each.

Understanding How Validation and Messaging Works in Oracle JET Editable Components

Use Oracle JET validation and messaging on editable components

Learn how to track the validity of a group of editable components and configure an Oracle JET application to notify editable components of business validation failures and to receive notification of an editable component's events and messages.

Using Oracle JET Messaging

Configure the help attribute on the oj-label component

Add a help icon to your oj-labelthat includes a URL for additional information or adds explanatory text that appears when the user hovers over the icon.

Configuring an Editable Component's oj-label Help Attribute

Configure the help.instruction attribute on editable components

Configure the help.instruction attribute to add advisory information to an input field that appears when the field has focus.

Configuring an Editable Component's help.instruction Attribute

Control the display of hints, help, and messages

Use the editable component's display-options attribute to control the display type of converter and validator hints, messaging, and help instruction properties.

Controlling the Display of Hints, Help, and Messages