Tooltips and Popover

Tooltip Type

Tooltips are informative message boxes that are displayed when you mouse-over or click on a control. The Tooltip Type property determines the message style, and when the information will be shown.

  • Tooltip: The content will appear in a small bubble when the user enters focus on the target input by moving their mouse over the control.
  • Popover: The content will appear in a pop-up box when the user clicks on the target input.

Tooltip Content

This property accepts the special {FriendlyName} tag if you want to insert the value of the Name property of this control into the tooltip.

 

Tooltip

The Tooltip Content property determines the information that will appear in the tooltip bubble.

Popover

The Tooltip Content property determines the information that will appear in the popover message.

Clicking on the Edit Content button will launch an instance of a rich-text editor that supports HTML code. The editor includes a simple menu for inserting certain control sets such as tables, lists, images, videos, and links, as well as text formatting controls, such as boldness, highlighting, and font.

Modifying the HTML Content

Clicking on the HTML (</>) button will change the the editor to HTML-mode. In this mode, you can enter your own HTML code, including references to classes that are defined in the Stylesheets module. Click the ‘X’ button in the right corner to close this window and save your changes.

Styles that are defined in the Stylesheets module will not be visible in the User Interface Designer view of the application. These stylesheets are only loaded during the Preview and Published versions of the application.

Note that scripts that are injected into the HTML will be stripped from the contents control.

Dynamic Content Injection

The value of calculated, and input named ranges can be injected directly into the HTML contents of the popover.

All dynamically injected variables must be entered inside double curly braces – {{ }}. To inject a variable into the contents, begin by entering double curly braces, and the system will automatically display available fields.

Single Named Ranges

When you enter double curly braces, you will see a list of Single Named Ranges (SNR). Selecting one of these from the list will populate the name of the named range in the contents.

Several formatting options are available when injecting the value of a Single Named Range (SNR). To use any of the formatting options, simply type in a colon character (:) after the name to see a list of supported data types. If you don’t apply any formatting, the name will be injected as an unformatted value.

The data types (Integer, Decimal, DateTime, or Text) are necessary to determine the format of the field. The system will automatically format the value of the Single Named Range (SNR) when you select a data type. The text data type will get the formatted value directly from the calculation engine. Text data type also has an optional paramater (None) for formatting that has no effect on the output.

Upon selecting the data type, add a semicolon character (;) to begin defining the desired format for the output value. The .NET formatting standards apply to this property as outlined below.

Tooltip Position

The Tooltip Position property determines where the tooltip or popover will be positioned in respect to the target input.

If Auto is selected, the tooltip or popover position will be calculated automatically based on other parameters like the position of the target input, and content of the tooltip or popover.