Field Level Help
Article Type: Concept / How-To Audience: End Users, Application Designers, Administrators Module: Fuuz Platform Applies to Versions: 2025.12+
Field-Level Help provides contextual guidance for individual fields and sections across Fuuz — pages, reports, dashboards, and custom screens. It helps end users understand how to use specific inputs and interpret displayed data.
Note: Field-Level Help is defined primarily on data models via description fields. Those descriptions auto-populate screen field help, but can be overridden at the screen (field) level when needed.
- Data Model / Schema: Builders add descriptions to entities and fields. These roll down automatically to screens.
- Screen-Level Overrides: Designers can select a field in the screen definition and set a custom description that supersedes the model description.
- Auto-Population: When a screen is generated or updated, field descriptions are auto-populated from the data model unless an override is present.
- App Builders: Define default help in data models.
- Screen Designers: Override help per field on screens.
- Administrators: In Fuuz, you control what displays in help for your application screens (with appropriate permissions) — edit the screen definition, update the field description, then save and deploy.
Important: If an admin/developer field lacks proper help, submit a support ticket so the platform team can update system-level descriptions.
- Navigate to the top-right corner of any screen.
- Click the "?" Help icon to enable Field-Level Help.
- While enabled, sections will display a "?" near them. Hover to reveal contextual help for the section or specific fields.
Note: On custom screens, the footer can show screen version and deploy date while help is enabled, aiding support and audit.
- Open the Screen Definition in the designer.
- Select the field you want to update.
- Update the Description for that field (this becomes the field-level help tooltip).
- Save the screen and Deploy.
The column itself and other related fields do not always have to share the same field-level descriptions. This provides maximum flexibility in building your applications, providing more context to the user — for example, filter inputs may provide slightly different context for a field than the column representing the data from the query.
On certain Mobile-type screens, the help icon may not appear. Consider alternative methods to deliver help content:
- Text Elements: Add subtitles or inline instructional text.
- Actions with Confirmations/Notifications: Provide guidance via confirmation dialogs or info notifications.
- Section Headers: Include concise usage notes in headers.
Tip: Keep mobile help brief and scannable — use short phrases and clear icons.
- Editing field help requires appropriate designer/admin permissions.
- Customers have direct control over their field-level help properties; contact your Fuuz system administrator if you feel something needs updating.
- End-user visibility respects role-based access and tenant isolation in the Fuuz mesh.
- Use support tickets to request updates to platform-level (system) fields — these would be things like Roles, Users, Policies, Designers, etc.
| Version | Date | Editor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 2025-12-23 | Fuuz Documentation Team | Initial Release |
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Source: support.fuuz.com