Static and Dynamic Tooltips in Report StudioAUGUST 5, 2013 | BY: ADMIN | NO COMMENTS

A Tooltip allows you to display some information when hovering over a field in a report when displayed in HTML. This is a great tool to add extra information and therefore clarity to your report.

 

You can create two Tooltip types:

 

1)    Static tooltip:

 

Here you just display textual information. When hovering on a Query item.

 

To create follow the following steps:

 

-       Unlock the cell

-       Drag an html item from the toolbox in front of query item

-       Double-click the html item and type the following:

 

<span title=”the text I want to display”> 

-       Drag an html item from the toolbox after the query item

-       Double-click the html item and type the following:

 

</span> 

2)    Dynamic  tooltip:

 

Here display another query subject when hovering on a Query item. It can be a string or a numeric value.

 

To create follow the following steps:

 

-       Unlock the cell

-       Drag an html item from the toolbox in front of query item

-       Change the html type from ‘text’ to ‘report expression’

-       Double-click the html item and in the report expression window type the following:

 

‘<span title=” ‘ +[Query item]+ ‘ ”>’ 

-       Drag an html item from the toolbox after the query item

-       Double-click the html item and type the following:

 

         </span> You can view the below YouTube video to see the process: