Tooltip

Hello,

First of all, I have done a search concerning the tooltip matter. The User Defined Object solution is not the appropriate one for me as the client has not agreed to it. Can someone please propose me a solution?

Someone has wriiten the following :
Why not just build another tab that has the “legen” on it. You can build what you want. Better yet, store all this information in the database and write add a data provider that returns what you want.

Can someone plzzz bring some light into the matter cuz i dont understand wot is bein said??

Thanks a lot…


shamnaz (BOB member since 2004-04-21)

What is being said is this:

You can’t easily do a tooltip.

What you can do is to build another report tab that gives a clear explanation of each of the columns on the report.

Or you could make sure your column descriptions and formulas are stored in a database table somewhere. Then you could simply write a query that returns this “metadata” and display it on a different report tab.


Steve Krandel :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-25)

Shamnaz,

You could always created a tootltip in a column header in a full client report, as long as you display it in HTML format.

I’m not surte what you’re trying to do as there is scant detail.

Essentially waht you do is in the column header of your report, use the format below;

<a title="Put your tooltip text here.">Put your column title here</a>

(And make sure the cell is displayed in HTML format.)

Email me if you have any further questions about the above.

Regards,

Darren.


Darren Griffin (BOB member since 2002-07-10)