Some of the information displayed on panels is static, or fixed text that the user does not interact with directly. This includes text such as top instructions and bottom instructions, prompt text, and data-field description text. DTL provides you with another method of defining static text for application panels using information regions.

Defining an information region on a panel allows you more flexibility for defining static text on a panel. The tags you use to define the text of information regions are much more versatile than the tags you use to define other types of static text, which means you can be more creative in the text you define.

In addition to using information regions on application panels, you must use them to define the text on help panels you define for your application. This topic explains how to define information regions on application panels, and how to define help panels for your applications.