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 regular 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.

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

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"
   }
}

A tooltip module saved in the data item configuration can also be deactivated on module level by storing the following datafield configuration:

JSON

{
  "Tooltip": {
    “Module”: ""
   }
}

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.

Note