Tuesday, September 22, 2009

OBIEE Tooltip Text in Column Heading

On the forums every now and then the question on how to achieve this:
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comes along, and most of the time the conclusion is that it can’t be done without some serious JS hacking. Here is a workaround which takes a little bit less effort:
First create an extra column containing your ToolTip text and column header like:
'<div title="This text explains the contence of the column">1-01  Revenue  (Sum All)</div>'
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Set the display format to HTML:
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Put the result in a pivot table:
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Till Next Time

Edit: Here is an even quicker method:
http://obieepractice.blogspot.com/2008/11/column-headerooltip-mouse-over.html

6 comments:

Michal Novy said...

What if you want to use number or date formatting of the column? I think it is not available if you use HTML format.

John Minkjan said...

Michal,

The original column is still availibe, only the header is replaced.

Regards

john

Kwl_PranayJain said...

hi John you have given solution for a pivot view.. what if i want to do the same for a table view which has write back columns..??

Sharath said...

John,
Good post.
There's this other interesting method I came across too.

http://obieepractice.blogspot.com/2008/11/column-headerooltip-mouse-over.html

John Minkjan said...

@Sharath,

Thanks for the tip!

regards

John

sandolinic said...

thank you! really cleaver.

Nicola