Tooltips on Icons

Displaying data as icons has the disadvantage of hiding detailed and possibly necessary information about the icon from the user.

Tooltips enable you to augment the icon with detailed information. When the user's mouse pointer hovers over an icon, the extended information about that grid cell is displayed. The information that displays is specific to the form and the grid column, but can include any or all of:

• Icon-specific text for the currently displayed icon.

  This text can, for example, provide short, explanatory context information to the user about why the icon is displayed, or its meaning when it is selected for display. This tooltip is labeled Show Icon Tootip in the dialog box.

• DD Name for the column.

  This tooltip is labeled Show DD Name Tooltip in the dialog box.

• The underlying data value.

  This tooltip is labeled Show Value Tooltip in the dialog box.

• DD Alias for the column.

  This tooltip is labeled Show DD Alias Tooltip in the dialog box.