Mouse over icon to display text?

I asked a similar question regarding a Task View - if I could have an indicator that there is something in the Task Detail description since we rarely use it, and the description could be too large to display I was hoping I could have an indicator that you could mouse over to see the task details. I received no responses from that post. I'm hoping you get a positive response that I'll be able to use as well.

Hi Greg and Sarah, I took a shot at your ideas to show the description "on hover" in a view tonight, but alas, no luck. For those who'd like to continue my head-banging, I've posted the text from a Task column that DOES properly show the Task's Progress Status on hover of the icon (e.g. On Time, Late, etc.) which is similar to the behavior we seek -- namely, to have the tooltip that pops up be "row specific" -- but in our case, we'd like to show the description of the Task instead. Perhaps with more brute force (and luck) than I have tonight, someone could find the proper syntax. Regards, Doug align=center descriptionkey=progressstatusicon displayname=Stat image.height=14 image.namevalue=string(progressStatusField) image.type=ProgressStatus image.valuefield=progressStatus image.valueformat=val image.width=14 linkedname=direct namekey=progressstatusicon.abbr shortview=false stretch=100 tile.name=component.progressstatusicon type=image valuefield=progressstatusicon valueformat=HTML viewalias=progressstatusicon width=30

Hi everyone, If I'm understanding the requirement properly, I believe this approach will work (at least it seems to for me). I came at it a little differently. I just added the "description" field and then used conditional formatting to display an icon (if not blank). I then played around a bit with some of the lines from your example, Doug, and the below started working. displayname=Task Description image.case.0.comparison.icon=true image.case.0.comparison.leftmethod=description image.case.0.comparison.lefttext=description image.case.0.comparison.operator=notblank image.case.0.comparison.operatortype=string image.case.0.comparison.righttext= image.case.0.comparison.truetext=/static/img/r15/icons/casebuilder/light_blue.gif image.namevalue=string(description) image.valuefield=description linkedname=direct shortview=false textmode=true valuefield=description valueformat=HTML Kathy

Sarah, specifically in regard to your question, the following works for a popup displaying the last note: displayname=Task Note image.case.0.comparison.icon=true image.case.0.comparison.leftmethod=lastNote:noteText image.case.0.comparison.lefttext=lastNote:noteText image.case.0.comparison.operator=notblank image.case.0.comparison.operatortype=string image.case.0.comparison.righttext= image.case.0.comparison.truetext=/static/img/r15/icons/casebuilder/light_black.gif image.namevalue=string(lastNote.noteText) image.valuefield=lastNote.noteText linkedname=lastNote shortview=false textmode=true valuefield=lastNote:noteText valueformat=HTML Kathy

Kathy, you're my hero! Thanks for pressing on with the research. Well done! Regards, Doug

Yes, Kathy - this is great work! Thank you!

I can't seem to get this to work using a Custom field. We have a field called 'PMO Comments' on our Project form and would like it to display using the mouse over. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! -Mike Michael Gerrol Dell-RSA Security - IT

Here's the code I tried. It does display the Icon on the rows that have a 'PMO Comments'! However, no text is displayed when i hover the icon. I believe the image.namevalue= line is the key. I haven't found any CUSTOM field that will display - only the WF specific fields. displayname=Hover for PMO Comments image.case.0.comparison.icon=true image.case.0.comparison.leftmethod=DE:PMO Comments image.case.0.comparison.lefttext= image.case.0.comparison.operator=notblank image.case.0.comparison.operatortype=string image.case.0.comparison.righttext= image.case.0.comparison.truetext=/static/img/r15/icons/casebuilder/light_black.gif image.namevalue=string(DE:PMO Comments) image.valuefield=string(PMO Comments) linkedname=project shortview=false textmode=true valuefield=PMO Comments valueformat=HTML Has anyone got this to work? Thanks in advance, -Mike Michael Gerrol Dell-RSA Security - IT

Been told that mouse over icon to display text - can only work with WF based form fields - and NOT with CUSTOM form fields. If anyone knows a work around, love to hear about it. Thanks! -Mike Michael Gerrol Dell-RSA Security - IT