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Customize Tooltips

Information

PLANTA makes different types of tooltips available:

  • Automatic tooltips are displayed on the headings which are truncated due to insufficient field length. In this case, the tooltip shows the entire heading.
  • Tooltips with hard-coded help texts or explanations for the field in question. Such tooltips can be stored on both fields and bars.
  • Tooltip modules which show additional data for the field in question based on the parameters defined in the tooltip module and depending on the selected record. 

Tooltips with hard-coded content

Procedure

  • In the customizer, open the data area which contains the data field for which you want to define a tooltip. 
  • Enter the required text in the Tooltip parameter in window 3 or use the required variables for output of dynamic contents (e.g. dates). For further information, please refer to the description of the Tooltip parameter.

Tooltip Modules

Information

  • Tooltip Modules enable you to use the content of a module as tooltip and to have different data displayed in the tooltip of a field, depending on the respective record. They thus present an alternative to tooltips with hard-coded texts.

Procedure

  • Customize a tooltip module like a regular module.
  • Set the Class parameter to 4.

Embed Tooltip Module

  • Enter the ID of the tooltip module in JSON format at the following positions, as shown in the example below: 
    • either in the data field configuration of the required data field in a module, if the tooltip is only to be displayed in that very module.
    • or in the Data item configuration of the required data item, if the tooltip is to be displayed in all modules in which the data item is used.
      • If a data item has an entry in the data item configuration and at the same time it has a deviating entry in the Data field configuration, the entry in the Data field configuration overrides the entry in the data item configuration.

Example

JSON
{
   "Tooltip": {
      "Module": "009DQ6"
   }
}


Customizing Rules

  • Tooltip modules can only contain one data window.
  • From a performance point of view, a tooltip module may only contain the data fields which it requires. These are data fields which
    • are used for sorting or filter criteria of the tooltip module.
    • are required for the correct output of the visible sorting or filter criteria fields.
  • The tooltip module must
    • only contain the visible traffic lights.
    • not contain buttons, links, listboxes, and other interactive elements.

Override Rule

Note

  • The defined tooltips override automatic tooltips.
  • The tooltip modules override defined and automatic tooltips.


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