Adding tooltips on layouts (FileMaker Pro Advanced)

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Adding tooltips on layouts (FileMaker Pro Advanced)

You can use FileMaker Pro Advanced to add tooltips to layout objects. Tooltips appear as small yellow boxes when a user moves the cursor over an object in Browse or Find modes. Tooltips can be static text or the results of a calculation.

To add, change, or delete tooltips:

1.	In Layout mode, select the object to which you want to add a tooltip.

2.	Choose Format menu > Set Tooltip.

Tip You can also right-click the object and choose Set Tooltip.

3.	Do the following in the Set Tooltip dialog box, then click OK:

Do this

Create a tooltip that displays static text

Type the text you want to appear.

Create a tooltip that displays the results of a calculation

Click Specify.

In the Specify Calculation dialog box, build a formula for your calculation. Click OK.

Change the tooltip

Modify the tooltip text as required.

Delete the tooltip

Delete the tooltip text.

Tip In Layout mode, choose View menu > Show > Tooltips to identify objects with tooltips. Objects with tooltips display this icon Tooltip icon

in Layout mode.

Notes

Tooltips display in FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Pro Advanced, runtime database solutions, and databases published to the web with Instant Web Publishing. You must use FileMaker Pro Advanced to add, edit, or delete tooltips.

If you open a file containing an object with a tooltip in FileMaker Pro 7 or FileMaker Developer 7 and copy that object, when you reopen the file in FileMaker Pro Advanced, the tooltip icon appears without tooltip text for the copied object. Select the object, choose Format menu > Set Tooltip, then enter the tooltip text or click OK to remove the icon. Duplicating objects in FileMaker 7 retains the tooltip text.

Tooltips display in Browse and Find modes and in Form view, List view, and Table view.

You can select multiple layout objects to assign the same tooltip to each. When you select multiple objects, the Set Tooltip dialog box displays the tooltip for the top object.

You can add a tooltip to grouped objects. All objects in the group will display the same tooltip.

All calculation results display as text, including dates, times, and numbers.

If the object's tooltip calculation returns an empty string, no tooltip displays. For example, if your tooltip displays related data and the relationship is missing, the tooltip will be empty. If an error occurs in the calculation, the tooltip displays invalid or partially valid results with question marks.

When you copy or duplicate an object with a tooltip, FileMaker applies the tooltip to the new object.

Tooltip text wraps if it exceeds 40% of the width of the screen.

Tooltips will only work in a web viewer if Allow interaction with web viewer content is disabled, or if the web viewer is formatted as a button.

FileMaker Pro Advanced may not be available in all of the shipping languages of FileMaker Pro.

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