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How to modify the Field Help dialog to display the OBJECTNAME.COLUMNNAME in the Table.Column

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Summary

When you are working in Maximo and open any field help by pressing Alt+F1, you are displayed the Field Help dialog for the field where the cursor is set to.

By default, the Table.Column information in that dialog comes from the OBJECTNAME.ATTRIBUTENAME, which is the standard way Maximo works, but in some cases you might want to change the way the information is displayed there.

For example, there is a custom attribute configured on any object like LOCATIONS, and that "Attribute" is called TEST1, but it has a different information as TEST for "Column" in Database Configuration.

Object = LOCATIONS
Attribute = TEST1
Column = TEST

Then the Alt+F1 Internal Field Help on the Locations application is displaying:
Table.Column: LOCATIONS.TEST1

(Table.Column is showing the attribute name instead of the column name)

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Modified date:
17 September 2025

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