The following characteristics of prompts and titles apply:
(OMS-75004) [Translation] Each prompt and title must have a minimum of 1" of space available horizontally (including the text itself) in which to expand when translated.
Only the following cases are exempt from this rule:
Text for which exact translation lengths are known ahead of time.
Prompts in folder blocks, which a user can alter and resize as needed. Such prompts only need to be sized properly for the base language they are developed in.
(OMS-58012) All prompts and titles share the same font type - MS Sans Serif or Helvetica (either produces the desired result).
(OMS-75006) All prompts have the following characteristics:
Font: 10 point, medium weight
Text color: Black when on a light background, or white when on a dark background
(OMS-75007)All titles have the following characteristics:
Font: 10 point, bold weight
Text color: Black when on a light background, or white when on a dark background
(OMS-75008)Prompts should only use Start, Center, or End for alignment settings.
Display items may be used to show dynamic prompts and titles (OMS-74018). Guidelines for such use are as follows:
[Translation] Size such a field so that when translated the text will not be clipped. Always allow as much space as possible but never less than the 30%/1" expansion rule minimum.
The text must not be cleared when a user performs a "Clear Form" action.
A display item acting as a prompt or title must have a height of 0.2," and be positioned 0.05" below a gridline (OMS-74022).
Font and color must match standard prompt and title settings.
A field with a display item acting as its prompt must have text supplied for either its Hint Text or a hidden Prompt (a Prompt with Display Style "Hidden").
(OMS-75024) All fields require unique prompts to identify them, except for some display-only fields whose prompts are obvious. Examples are:
Adjacent Vendor Name and Vendor Number fields: the word Vendor can be omitted from the second field prompt.
Adjacent Item and Item Description fields: the displayed prompt for the second field can be omitted when the description field is display only:
Adjacent Amount and Currency fields can share the single displayed prompt of Amount if the currency type is defaulted:
For all fields that do not have a displayed prompt, text still must be available to uniquely identify the field. Either a hidden prompt or Hint Text must be supplied for each instance.
Because a frame title is not linked to fields within the frame, all fields inside a frame must have Hint Text that combines the frame title and Prompt, in the format: .
Fields that are part of a matrix layout, with prompts for the rows and columns, must have Hint Text that combines these prompts in the format: <row label>: <column label>.