ABSTRACT (by Federico Levis ) Category: RS
RS Tip: Add Tooltip in RS
Tooltips are a standard Cognos Feature only for few objects, like Charts. To add tooltip to other objects (ValuePrompts, List Cells....) there are following options:
1. Static Tooltip
Example:
Steps:
Insert a span HTML Item in Front of the Cognos Object and another to close the span after it:
First HTML Item (<span for Static Tip>):
SourceType = Text
HTML = <span title="Insert part of the Film you are looking for. For example 'AMERICAN' to filter all the Film containing 'AMERICAN'">
Second HTML Item:
SourceType = Text
HTML = </span>
2. Dynamic Tooltip accessing Report Data
As Before insert the 2 HTML Item before and after the involved object, but this time to acces to Report Data set SourceType = Report Expression
Follow an example, to show for each List cell of Film Column additional information related to the same row records ([QryTable].[Description] and [QryTable].[Special Features]):
Each Film Cell show its particular Tootip, related to the selected row
Changing Film we will see a different tooltip
Steps:
Insert a span HTML Item in Front of the List Column Text Item and another to close the span after it:
First HTML Item (<span for Dynamic Tip>):
SourceType = Report Expression
Report Expression = '<span title="' + [QryTable].[Description] + ' - SPECIAL FEATURES: ' + [QryTable].[Special Features] + '">'
3. Advanced Tooltip with CEL Features
If you need advanced Tooltips (HTML Tip, AutoUpdated Txt Tip,...) they are supported by CEL: see CEL Tooltip Post