Help texts

Help texts can useful to provide the user with extra information that may help them to understand what is expected in the field. This includes:

• An explanation of what the variable means.

• Where to find, or how to take, a measurement.

• An expected range of inputs (if you’d rather not use the hard limits of conditions).

• A reference to where the variable is better explained in the text.

• A note to use the advanced mode if you’d like a default changed, or any other reason someone may need to use the advanced mode.

Note

If you want to know how to add help texts to your variables, check out this section of the calculator guide.

There are of course many other reasons that a help text may be used, but these are some of the common ones.

Warning

Please do not use a help text to merely rephrase the variable, e.g., for “Circumference”, the help text reads “The circumference of a circle.” Such a help text is redundant and doesn’t add anything to the user’s experience.