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NoteIt is recommended that you use the existing proceduretwbkwbis.P_DispInfo to retrieve and display Info Text on new pagesyou create, or existing pages that you modify to display Info Text. Pleaserefer to the Web General packages for specific examples of theP_DispInfo procedure.•Help Info TextA system of help messages stored has been stored as Info Text with the label HELP. It wasoriginally stored in the Banner Self-Service products in static HTML files. By changing itinto Info Text, it will be much more easy for non-technical users to customize andmaintain.NoteThe static HTML help system will continue to be supported. It wasmodified to conform to the same accessibility standards as Info Text.•As with all other rows, Info Text Help records are stored in Web Tailor as baseline. InfoText rows created by your institution using Web Tailor are stored as local. You cannotmodify baseline rows. Info Text that is stored as local is displayed first. If there are norows stored as local, the baseline rows are displayed. This ensures that your institution’scustom help will not be overwritten with each Banner upgrade.NoteWeb Tailor and Executive Self-Service still have help messages stored instatic HTML files (help text that describes them). This help is displayedwhen the user selects the Help link in the upper right-hand corner of theWeb page. The help text appears in a new window, and includes an Exitlink at the bottom of each window.•A CSS for global-level help, web_defaulthelp.css, is provided. It will be used inaddition to the CSS defined for that page.InternationalizationThe Banner Self-Service products contain logic to facilitate translating text to targetedlanguages, and to support other date and number formats.Appropriate hard-coded strings in the Web packages have been replaced by calls to thepackage called G$_NLS so that they can be translated into various languages. Thesechanges are transparent to the user, and do not affect clients using American English.5-4 Banner Web Tailor 8.3 January 2010User GuideTechnical Reference