Tool Tips

Hi all, I have three questions: QUESTION 1 I have a tooltip calculation that DOES NOT work: FieldComment ( Get(FileName) ; template::template_field_name_01 ) Then I created a second Tooltip calculation that DOES work: Get(FileName) I have assigned these two Tooltip calculations to both Field and Field Labels for testing purposes. What am I doing wrong in the first calculation? QUESTION 2 In my troubleshooting quest and internet search, I came across some Filemaker commenters mentioning putting Tooltips in their own dedicated table. This is interesting and I can see some benefits in doing so (translated vers…

Hi all I have created an employee vacation scheduler that is basically gantt charts using a combination of repeating fields. On the employee record I can add related records (timeOff), set the dates, approval status, approved by and a note. This repeating field (cChart) is then recalculated into a summary field (sChart, also repeating) that shows the given date range (31 repetitions) for the employee. Numerical values complete the repeating fields. 0 is no data, 1 is approved, 2 is rejected and 3 is pending. On another layout I have the Employee table in List view and each employee has the sChart repeating field shown in a matrix so the user can see th…

On the FMP 19 Help page ( https://help.claris.com/en/pro-help/content/tooltips.html ), in the Notes section, it says: Your operating system determines the tooltip font, font size, and display time. How/Where do you find/change that/those setting(s)? (I'm on a Mac, but if the answer could be listed for PC and Mac, that'd be kicks. Thanks.)

HI, MY COMPANY USES FM19 AND POSTGRESSQL DATABASE. AFTER 10 YEARS THE CODES GENERATE FROM FM19 ARE EVERYWHERE. IT IS TOO MESSY. COULD SOME HELP US TO ORGANIZE IT: 1) CREATE A MAIN PROGRAM. 2)ANY CODES THAT GENERATE WILL MAKE A FORM OF SUBROUTINES OR FUNCTIONS AUTOMATICALLY PUT IN THE MAIN PROGRAM. 3)ONLY THE SUBROUTINE JUST GENERATED RUN FOR THE PERSON WHO JUST CREATE IT, NOT THE WHOLE MAIN PROGRAM. SINCE THE MAIN CONTAINS MANY SOUROUTINES. ANY SUGGESTIONS WILL APPRECIATE.

Howdy. I'm new to the Forums (and fairly new to Filemaker) and I have started putting helpful tooltips on a lot of my buttons. The user guide online states that tooltips wrap at a certain point, but I was wondering if it was possible to put in a manual return/line break into the tooltip to make it have multiple lines. It doesn't make sense to have a super wide tooltip if it can be condensed down to a smaller horizontal tooltip that is a bit taller. Anyone know if this is possible similar to an HTML <br> tag or a &#13 or &#10 character?

Use Case: I've got a graphic (in this instance, a complete human body). I want to mouse-over and click on say, the hand, and have that trigger a script, with a parameter. I'd hope to simply have a single script, read the parameter (which would in fact grab the value of the tooltip), and have that passed into the script. It seems to me that the various flavors of "get(objectname), etc don't seem to have a way to grab the actual text that's in the "tooltip" or "object name". Am I missing something in there? I'd love to be able to create 50 graphics, name each one by tooltip (or object name), and not have to create/modify a script for each and every…

I thought this was pretty cool, tells you almost all the attributes about a field in the tool tip http://www.briandunning.com/cf/1779

My problem seems simple enough but I can't seem to find the answer. I have tool tips attached to to Tab Panels,the problem is any where you run your cursor over in the tab panel shows the tool tip, I only want it to display when running the cursor over the label of the tab panel. Suggestions? Thank you! Caroline

Hi,  I am working on a database and I have just found a problem with it that I can't seem to fix, as you can see from the image, I have added a portal row to a layout which includes check boxes and I have a send email button at the bottom which run the following script:    Set Field [ Case::chk box; 1 ] Go to Layout [ â��Quote Viewâ�� (Consultant) ] Set Variable [ $FilePath; Value: Get ( TemporaryPath ) & "Quote " & Case::Case Number & ".pdf" ] Save Records as PDF [ File Name: â��file:$FilePathâ��; Current record ] Send Mail [ Send via E-mail Client; To: Case::Solicitor's Email; Subject: "New Quote: " & Case::Case Number & " "; Message:…

Not sure where this post should go. When I click on links inside FMPro I'm taken to or they open in Internet Explorer. I'd like set it so the links open in Chrome or Firefox. Did a bunch of Google searches for this info but couldn't find it! Thanks, David

This may be impossible but I would love to find a solution to this. I use tooltips to show data from other tables and/or layouts. For instance, we keep records of many different phone numbers for our different clients. We do not want to take up a lot of screen real estate with phone number fields. So what I do is set a tooltip that displays the clients phone numbers when you hold the mouse pointer over their name. It does not stay on the screen for long enough. Has anyone ever come across a solution that would allow me to increase the amount of time that a tooltip is shown on the screen. I know I could use a custom dialog but then the user has to click on s…

I have a text field with a vertical scroll bar with an excess of text in each record due to limited layout space. I'm not sure the user will know to click inside the field in order to bring up the vertical scroll bar drop-down arrow. Is there a way to make this Arrow permanent? Or alternatively, I could make a tool tip that says "Click inside the text box to scroll" but how could I create a calculaiton as part of the tool tip that takes away that message once the user has clicked inside the text field? Thanks so much for the heads up.

I've been on FileMaker Pro 7 Developer for ages, but I like the idea of tool tips, and so I finally I upgraded to FileMaker 11 Advanced. Yes, yes I know there is FileMaker 12 but I didn't want to go through the hassle of converting all of my existing files from .fp7. Anyway, in the Layout Inspector (which is new to me) I assume that one selects the field or the field name and then types in the text of the tool tip in the Inspector. I'm assuming that most people are choosing the field itself, rather than the name or header. Is that true?

Hi All, I am trying to use some foreign characters in one of my fields. The problem that i am facing is that the tool tip is not showing these foreign characters. Instead it is showing blank boxes for these characters. Please help me in resolving this issue as i am stuck for 2 days. Thanks, Imran

Hello Everyone, i have been trying to search/ download samples provided by many sharing persons in this community, but it is quite difficult to do at least on my end. I am learning that it is best to look at these files, figure out how they work and learn from that. Can someone please let me know how i can search here for all the *.zip or *.fp7 files that are on this forum? thank you, -ian

Is there a way to set a tool tip to show the account name and date/time that the field was last changed?

I was shown a Keyboard short cut once, that i have since forgotten that will enter a value in a field in ALL Records in the found set, not just the current record. Anyone know what is is for Windows ?

i made drop down list with apple ball cat. when i select apple from list it must show tool tip its fruit when i select ball it should show it is used in cricket how to do it

Is there any way to add formatting to a tool tip? I'd like to be able to highlight a word in a different colour or by making it bold. Thanks Brian

I'm almost certain this is in the wrong place, so admin feel free to move it. I would like to know if it is possible to get the small yellow labels you see on most interfaces when you 'Mouse over' a button or link. Just the small yellow box with a little bit more detail in it. If so how do you go about doing this. Please point me in the right direction. Mark.

Just starting to use my new MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard and my new Filemaker Pro 10. When I open my old files I was using on my Powerbook running Tiger and with Filemaker Pro 8.5, text fields are showing all of the words underlined in red, even words that are spelled correctly. Can't figure out why. And when you use the spell checker, there are no suggested spellings for these common words. Any ideas?

Since migrating to FM10 tooltips show up very little if at all , mostly not? Have tried deleting and re-formatting & restarting.

FM Verion 6.0Dv4 (Mac) How can I enlarge a full layout site up to 175%? Unfortunately FM allows to scale from 150% to 200% only. For my 24" display a view of 175% would be just perfect. Any idea where/how to get that? Thanks. Horrister [email protected]

Hi. Is it possible using the trickier aspects of ToolTips to create an OnMouseOver effect found in HTML. I was thinking along the lines of using the tool tip to copy an alternative graphic into a field (being used as a button), then revert it back when the cursor moves away. Any thoughts? Greg

How can I display a fields second value, the tooltip just shows the first value in a value menu! Thanks

I'm going overboard on the tool tips, using them for all sorts of things. Problem, when you hover over an object the tool tip shows for just a few seconds and then diapears. Is there any way to make it stay longer?

I have only been using FM for a very short time, and I am sure this is an operational error, but I can't work it out. I have a couple of layouts where I have selected the alternate row color in the body, but it just won't show. Strangely I have a couple of other layouts in the same file where it is working. It is driving me mad. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

When someone out side the priviledge set tries to click on a button, how do you get a button to show a message that says you do not have access to this file?

Is there a way to have a tooltip show the current number of entries displayed by a portal? The closest I've been able to come is to hover over the last row (when selected) and display Get(PortalRowNumber). Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi all!!! Maybe you know if it is possible to set a "conditional tooltip", I mean, a tooltip that appears only if there is more than 120 characters, for example... Thanks a lot for asking and thinking!!! Jorge

Hi I am trying to have a custom function where I can add a tooltip to a field which is the comments set in the field defination. The calc is: FieldComment ( Get ( FileName ) ; FieldName ) But when I use this either with the sysntax FieldComment ( Get ( FileName ) ; "FieldName" ) it does not work. Please help. :

Is it true that a tooltip cannot "know" which portal row (and hence, which record) it is hovering over? I've been reading about -- and experimenting with -- having a tooltip display information out of a record displayed in a portal. So far, I've been able to bring up related information -- but not from the specific record I'm hovering over. For example, I can click on a portal row, then hover over a different row and bring up info for the selected record (by using the combination of GetNthRecord and Get(PortalRowNumber)). Before I abandon this effort, I'd just like to get confirmation that the above question/statement is true -- but I'm certainly open to suggestio…

hi, newbie here. on os x 10.4.11 using fmp 8.5 and 9 i use both "mail" and entourage for email clients. how do i specify which application in fmp script i'll use? my default is mail. sometimes i want to use entrouage sending out email via fmp database/script. any help would be great.. THANK YOU

A search for "contents of portal" or "portal contents" in this forum didn't find anything so I'm hoping someone out there will answer this for me. Is it possible to use a tooltip to display the contents of a portal? I have an event registration db in which the registered participants show up in a portal. Is it possible to have a tooltip on a related layout show the contents of that portal e.g. the persons who have so far registered for an event? Please say yes... Abbe

I have recently been finding useful ways of using tooltips . I have a use for one, but I just can't work out how to execute it. In one table I have a field showing a numeric value (a £ amount) and in a related product table I have products that have a retail price . I would Like the tooltip in the first table (sales) to show all the product descriptions that retail up to the amount in the sales field ie sales Field = £270 tooltip shows products (stored in Product table) that retail from £0 to £270 and not above. I'm not sure if this is too ambitious Any help would greatly be appreciated thanks

Using FM9 Advanced , I am trying to use a tooltip to display a (text) fields contents in a larger font size. I am using the TextSize function to display the fields contents in a larger font size but it seems to have no effect. Has anyone managed to get this to work? thanks

Can I somehow emulate in filemaker the tooltips that popup when the mouse pointer hovers over a button or a field? Or am I better off using a common tip area and set a calculation to change the text dynamically? Or is this even possible?

Greetings everyone I wanted to see if there is an easier way to do what I'm doing. I'm using a combination of the Field Comments and Tooltips feature to give the user more explanation what a particular field is for besides the small field label next to it. I've used this calc in defining the Tooltip - FieldComment ( FileName; Get ( ActiveFieldName ) ) Which works great, but obviously the user has to click in/on the field to make it the ActiveField, and for the Tooltip to show up. This might be a bit cumbersome to some users. Is there a better way to do this (have the tooltip come up without having to click in the field), without hardcoding …

I wondered if there was a simple way to enable and disable tooltips - The idea being that I wanted to define the tooltips for each field and then have a script so the user can turn them on or off from a custom menu - a sort of help. The long way to do this seems to be a calculated result for each field with a global field holding the on/off status but I can see this as fairy time consuming. Any ideas would be appreciated thanks

I'm developing on Windows, but client will be on Mac. I've noticed that the tooltips seem to appear much more slowly on the Mac as opposed to Win. This is true even for tooltips that are straight text, so it's not about calculation speed. Anyone know why this is the case? And any way to speed it up? It's a problem because they take so long to appear that users are moving their mouse away, thinking no tooltip is coming.

We're going to be using IWP as a school report card input, so I was excited about the possibility of using multi-line Tooltips to present grading rubrics, etc., to the teachers doing the input. Unfortunately, it seems that one's choice of browser affects the way the tooltip displays. On Macs, Safari shows multiple lines, Firefox does not, at least from my limited testing. Has anyone seen this? (Tooltip format uses pilcrows to separate lines)

I am a relatively new Filemaker user. I have pro 8 advanced and am working on Mac OS X. I am trying to add tooltips, and am able to do so in Layout mode, but after I save and switch to Browse mode, the tooltips do not show up when I run the cursor over the field. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you. Sibilla

Hi Xperts. I would like to set up a multilingual solution under fm8 and need to give helpsupport with tooltips in the user language. I try to fill a global field in with the user language, global related to the tooltiptable. Each tooltip has a numeric code. To fill the global in, I use the Event plugin and trigger a script in each tooltip, the numeric value is joined as scriptparameter. The script is effectively triggered by the mouseover and the global in filled in with the good value. BUT the tooltip has always one step after. Tooltip 1 comes for field 2 where tooltip 2 should appear, and so one. An example is joined and if not available in the top…

This approach appears in the latest issue of Filemaker Advisor, and was contributed by Scott Love of Soliant Computing: Up until now, I created a calculation for each tooltip in the file that needed the tip. Some of the tips were dynamic abd changed based on what record ther user was on. Scott's method involves creating a Custom Function to handle all Tooltips in the current file. Pass the CF 2 parameters: ToolTips( Type; Value ) Case( Type= "Print"; "Print Information For This Transaction"; Type= "MainMenu"; "Return To The Main Menu"; Type= "Email"; "Send an Email to: " & Value; ) To use this CF, enter the CF…

I have found the calender that you can use and it is grand, but when it comes to filling in time is there a clock? Or do anyone have some clever suggestion how to design it? Thanks Frida

I'm getting in a muddle with my tooltips here. I want users to be able to tick a box if they want the tooltips turned on. I created a global field 'novice' (yes/no radio buttons). Then I've been using a calculation in the tooltip itself If (gNovice = "yes"; FieldComment ("name"); "") However this doesn't always trigger the tooltips to work (- it does sometimes!) But I assume I've got this a bit wrong somewhere. Can someone help please? Rosemarie.

Maybe i did not explain it to well the first time here a deeper explanation. I have a list view and when I roll over the entry with the mouse the tooltip should show a specific listing. Now this Specific Listing consists of 2 fields. Field one: "Scenes:¶" & List (scenes::Scene Title) Field two List (scenes::TC_Duration ) If I would combine the two fields ("Scenes:¶" & List (scenes::Scene Title) & List (scenes::TC_Duration ) The result is way different, it looks like: Scene: Scene Title - TC Duration TC Duration TC Duration TC Duration The Scene Titles are missing after the first listing. The result should be: …

Im trying to combine a text msg and a field info. I cant get it to work. "Go to Scene Index. You have a total of [scenes::Scene_Total] Scenes." How can I format it the right way? Seems simple but I cant figure it out. Is there some guide to learn like how to format calculations? Thanks as always TMAS

Hi, I am a novice with FM so if this is painfully obvious please be merciful. I have bought and read the FM8 missing manual and am still a bit hazy about how to proceed with the syntax for a tool tip of this type. I am creating a workout database for my home. I have fields that contain the Exercise and the Method used to execute the exercise. Flat Bench would be an example of an Exercise Barbell or dumbbell would be examples of a Method. Now I have up to 6 Exercises and 6 Methods for each workout. (Exercise 1 -6 and Method 1 -6) I want a tooltip that would find the last workout I did with the selected Exercise and Method and tell me how much weight/rep…

Hello All. I'm a newbie to FM and I have a question about tooltips. I have no problem with the basic use of GetNthRecord() function so far. I figured out how to see the next record (person's name) in a found set and the previous person's name. My question is: When I reach the end of a found set, how do I get the tooltip to let me know that there is 'No more records'? I'm embarrassed to ask such a simple question on this forum. Thanks

Anyone willing to share a little code that would make a tooltip popup change each time the cursor went over it? I'm told that a "Simple LET" and a few variables will do this but I can't crack the nut on it. I've seen this in action so I know it works. Stephen

Does anybody know of a plug-in or workaround to add Tool Tip Formatting to Filemaker Pro 8? Thanks. Ethan

I have a row of buttons used in multiple layouts, and I have put individual tool tips on each of them. Trouble is, I have labelled the buttons with a repeating field of names. The tool tips only appear if the cursor is over the edges of the buttons, not in the centre where the repeating field and names lie. Not the easiest for users! Has anyone found a way around this without sacrificing the editing flexibility of naming with a repeating field?

Hello: I know this is going to be a head banger but I opened up one of the FM 8 Advanced starter databases and added a tool tip to a few fields. I go into browse mode and click on the field and put my mouse over it BUT I dont see the tool tip. What am I doing wrong? Dom

I am stuck - I just want to let FM rename a pdf-file via a send event script with a calculated cmd-string but can't figure out how to tell win2k that this cmd should rename the file in a special folder eg "cmd /c move /y c:Documents and SettingsAll UsersDocumentsprinted.pdf c:Documents and SettingsAll UsersDocumentsVariableRcdID.pdf" This does not work at all but: If this command is done on root level renaming works: "cmd /c move /y c:printed.pdf c:VariableRcdID.pdf" So it has something to do with the path names in the cmd-string - how do I force and tell the cmd to use the right folder locations?? Any Ideas or hints?

I would like to create an icon that let's my users know there is a tooltip. Does anyone have one that they would like to share? I think the community should come up with a universal graphic for this little fun feature of filemaker!

I want to use a non-breaking hyphen as can be used in WORD with CTRL+SHIFT+-. I know that a non-breaking space can be done by CTRL+space, but is there a way to do the non-breaking hyphen in Filemaker?

Ok, this is a tough one (at least, for me). I currently have a "menu bar" which is actually a portal with a record for each task/layout I want to access. The rows are buttoned such that clicking on the row in question will activate a multiscript with the parameter defined by the related record. That part works fine. Now, I would like to add tool tips to the menu, and this is where things get sticky. As far as I know, there is no equivalent of "MouseOver" in Filemaker, and of course I can't just put Menu::ToolTip in the tooltip calc because I haven't actually SELECTED the record in question yet. Is there anything I can do to get this to work? Thanks muchly! …

Has anyone tried creating a tooltip that shows data from the first, previous, next, and last found records? In other words on the button navigation panel, have the customer's name from the first record shown as a toolbar, on the 'first' button, customer's name from the previous record shown as a toolbar on the 'prev' button... etc etc.

: Question ? Is it any way that automatically will be assigned current tab to field ? Without any button? Ino ??? TabsHow.zip

what is the easy way to get rid of the seconds in a timestamp field? Do I have to use a text field and calculate it?

I use my database program to write checks. My current program converts the numeric field that holds"100.00", but when it prints the check it converts to "One Hundred Dollars and no/100". Any ideas? Can Filemaker do this?

Hi, Just got my copy of FMP 8 Advanced today, and I'm messing with custom menus and tooltips... Here is the tooltip calculation I'm using to show what the shortcut would be for a specific button Case(Get ( SystemPlatform )="-1";"Print Sample Label (Cmd+option+P)"; Get ( SystemPlatform )="-2";"Print Sample Label (Ctrl+Alt+P)"; ) Does anyone know how to display the characters for Cmd and Option keyboard modifiers as they display on macintosh menus? I can't seem to find those characters to type them into the calc dialog. Thanks in advance, Dana

A new collection (expanding in future) of tricks & examples for tooltips has been added to 24U Software's web site. Currently demonstrated techniquest include: Implementing and managing multilingual tooltips Storing tooltips in variable arrays or dynamically named variables Switching between multiple languages or tooltip sets Accessing related data via the GetNthRecord function Please enjoy the free example(s) and feel free to e-mail me with any questions or suggestions. HOnza LocalizedTooltips.zip

FM added Tool Tips to Advanced (version 8), a much awaited feature. I previously used a plugin which was really not worth the effort. FMI's implementation is clearly superior to what any plugin could accomplish. First off, the tips work inside of portals, whereas the plugin only worked on the 1st row. I set up a whole bunch of tool tips as text calculations across a number of files. However a fair number of them would work in one file, but are in another file. As an aside, I find that the Define Fields takes a relatively long time to close. Now for the hint. Go to Link and download either of their clipboard utilities. One is freeware and for the most part work…