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striver How can I put a simple text message on the Page Layout?
I tried many things on how to customize this but find nothing effective. I want to put a text message on the Page Layout I created, how can I do that? Anyone who know how to configure this? Please help me again.
You had mentioned in ur post, that you want to put the message anywhere in your page!
you can create a VF component maybe, which will render this message text for you and you can embed it anywhere in your page section.
Is that what you want?
Cool_D
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Can u please elaborate a bit?
Like where do you want to put it, like a header or like a help text?
Cool_D
Striver,
I am confused now!
Are you building a VF screen or are you using a standard page layout?
And how you want to put the message on page? Do you want the content to be rendered dynamically?
Cool_D
You had mentioned in ur post, that you want to put the message anywhere in your page!
you can create a VF component maybe, which will render this message text for you and you can embed it anywhere in your page section.
Is that what you want?
Cool_D
First, as the product manager for Page Layouts, let me apologize for this gap in functionality. It is on the roadmap to support static text on the layout, but is not as high a priority as other feature requests.
Second, the Visualforce approach will work but I can see how it might be daunting. It is also only visible on the Detail Page, not on the Edit Page form.
Third, there is a trick to displaying static text that is often used for forms that need to communicate policy information to the end user, etc. The trick:
1. create a custom field of type Text
2. set the Default Value for the custom field to be the static text you need.
3. make sure that the field is read-only for all of your end users (you as the admin will still see it as editable, so do not be fooled by that -- try looking at with an end-user's Profile and it will be read-only).
4. place this field on the page layout where you want it to display. The catch is that the field label will display next to it, so you need to give it a meaningful field label.
This discussion was from over two years ago. Has there been any progress on adding this fairly basic functionality?
Use Case:
1. Dislaimer section at the end of page.
2. Detailed explanation before certain fields , especially checkbox requesting for some consent.
3. Detailed text to guide user on where to get a specific data point which is requested in the form .
1) Create a section in the page and alter the section header to have the text you need (can only be a certain length) and visible in edit and/or view.
2) Add a blank line under the section so it doesn't disappear because there's no data.
Built in basic functionality should already be in page layouts, especially as it is a deficiency that was acknowledged years ago by SFDC and would be low hanging fruit to implement.
It's remarkable that such incredibly basic functionality is "It is on the roadmap" as the project manager of Layouts metioned above in 2009...yet here in the year of our lord 2022 it's still MIA. 13 years and we still can't add simple text to a layout...