Salesforce Facts by Abhishek

Suppose we have a scenario in screen flow where we need to show dynamic help text for an input. Whatever value is entered in the input, the help text shows the value. We can implement this using an LWC. In this example, there is a number type input and the helptext shows the text based on the input entered. Attached are the screenshots. Note: The reactive beta feature setting needs to be enabled to pass the data from screen flow to LWC.

While trying to fetch the field help text using SOQL on FieldDefinition object, we get the below error: No such column 'inlinehelptext' on entity 'FieldDefinition'. So, to get the help text we can use the getDescribe() call in the format: SobjectApiName.FieldApiName.getDescribe().getInlineHelpText(). For example, Account.AccountSource.getDescribe().getInlineHelpText();