Creating pop-up tooltips in controls

A tooltip is pop-up text that is displayed when a user positions the cursor over a control in MicroStrategy Web. You can use tooltips to provide extra information, such as the full company name in the tooltip of the company logo. If a document has narrow columns that do not allow for full descriptions of the metrics, you can place that information in tooltips. Tooltips are not displayed in PDF View.

For examples of tooltips, refer to the Document Creation Help.

You can create tooltips for the following types of controls:

• Grid/Graphs

• HTML containers

• Images

• Lines

• Panel stacks (all panels in the panel stack display the same tooltip)

• Rectangle and rounded rectangles

• Selectors

• Text fields

Prerequisite

This procedure assumes you have already created one of the controls listed above.

To create a tooltip

1. Open the document to be formatted in the Document Editor. How?

2. If the Property List is not displayed, select Property List from the View menu.

3. Select the control to be formatted.

4. In the Property List: Appearance section, type the pop-up text in the Tooltip property. You can type any of the following, and combine them:

   • Static text, such as The Company, Inc.

   • Data fields from the dataset reports, such as the Region attribute. Be sure to type the object name inside braces { } to indicate that it is a data field rather than static text.

   • Auto text codes, such as the document name or the dataset report name. Be sure to type the auto text code within braces { }. For lists of the auto text codes, see Auto text codes for documents and Auto text codes for datasets.

You can also create a tooltip in the Properties dialog box: General tab.