Adding tooltips on layoutsYou can add tooltips to layout objects. Tooltips appear as small yellow boxes when a user moves the pointer over an object in Browse or Find modes. Tooltips can be static text or the results of a calculation.
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Create a tooltip that displays static text Type the text you want to appear as the tooltip in the Tooltip field. Create a tooltip that displays the results of a calculation In the Specify Calculation dialog box, build a formula for your calculation. Click OK. Tip In Layout mode, choose View menu > Show > Tooltips to identify objects with tooltips. Objects with tooltips display a badge in Layout mode.
• Tooltips display in FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Pro Advanced, runtime database solutions, and databases published to the web with Instant Web Publishing.
• If the object’s tooltip calculation returns an empty string, no tooltip displays. For example, if your tooltip displays related data and the relationship is missing, the tooltip will be empty. If an error occurs in the calculation, the tooltip displays invalid or partially valid results with question marks.
• When you copy or duplicate an object with a tooltip, FileMaker Pro applies the tooltip to the new object.
• Tooltip text may wrap, depending on your operating system and the length of the text relative to the screen's width.