Showing posts with label TOOLTIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TOOLTIP. Show all posts

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