Hi All,

I copied the example below from an old post and I'm getting an error. I'm on 8.201M

A couple questions ...
1) Can someone run this and see if it works for them? And if not, let me know what the issue is.

2)Is this still the best/preferred way to accomplish this functionality?

Thanks

Here's the example using the CAR file ...

-*-- Hover / Mouseover example using html title --------------------------------

-SET &TITLE_MSG =
- '<span style="cursor: default;" ' | 'title=''View details''>Country</span>';

DEFINE FILE CAR
 CONTINENT/A10 =
 IF COUNTRY IN ('FRANCE', 'W GERMANY', 'ITALY', 'ENGLAND') THEN 'Europe' ELSE
 IF COUNTRY IN ('JAPAN') THEN 'Asia' ELSE '???';
 MOUSEOVER/A255 =
 '<span style="cursor: default;" title=''The continent is ' |
 CONTINENT | '''>' | COUNTRY | '</span>';
END

TABLE FILE CAR
 PRINT
 MOUSEOVER AS '&TITLE_MSG'
 MODEL AS 'Model'
 BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
 ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END

Here's the error message I get ...

0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 17 IN PROCEDURE ADHOCRQ FOCEXEC *
(FOC003) THE FIELDNAME IS NOT RECOGNIZED: View
(FOC009) INCOMPLETE REQUEST STATEMENT
BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND

This message has been edited. Last edited by: FP Mod Chuck,

I put 'View Details' in double quotes, rather than 2 single quotes, and the page renders fine.

-SET &TITLE_MSG =
- '<span style="cursor: default;" ' | 'title="View details">Country</span>';

DEFINE FILE CAR
 CONTINENT/A10 =
 IF COUNTRY IN ('FRANCE', 'W GERMANY', 'ITALY', 'ENGLAND') THEN 'Europe' ELSE
 IF COUNTRY IN ('JAPAN') THEN 'Asia' ELSE '???';
 MOUSEOVER/A255 =
 '<span style="cursor: default;" title=''The continent is ' |
 CONTINENT | '''>' | COUNTRY | '</span>';
END

TABLE FILE CAR
 PRINT
 MOUSEOVER AS '&TITLE_MSG'
 MODEL AS 'Model'
 BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
 ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END
-EXIT 

jfr99

I get the same error and not sure of the cause. In the master file you can create the DEFINE with a TITLE and DESCRIPTION of the field and use SET POPUPDESC = ON in your fex or server profile (edasprof.prf). I think that is the preferred method now.

Hi David ... That worked for me as well. Thanks

Chuck ... I'm mostly interested in a mouseover for a data element so is this still the best/preferred method there?

Thanks

The original post was from 2006, when we did not have POPUPDESC. The code works when the appropriate quotes are used - double-quotes like David mentioned.

Unfortunately, while POPUPDESC does what it's supposed to do, my example does more: it provides more information than a description - it includes data values.

Slightly cleaned up code - ready for 2030 AD.

-*-- Hover / Mouseover example using html title --------------------------------

-SET &TITLE_MSG = '<span style="cursor: default;" ' | 'title="View details">Country</span>';

DEFINE FILE CAR
  CONTINENT/A10 =
    IF COUNTRY IN ('FRANCE', 'W GERMANY', 'ITALY', 'ENGLAND') THEN 'Europe' ELSE
    IF COUNTRY IN ('JAPAN') THEN 'Asia' ELSE '???';
  MOUSEOVER/A255 =
    '<span style="cursor: default;" title="The continent is ' |
    CONTINENT || '">' || COUNTRY || '</span>';
END
-RUN

TABLE FILE CAR
  PRINT
    MOUSEOVER       AS '&TITLE_MSG'
    MODEL           AS 'Model'
    BY COUNTRY      NOPRINT
  ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END
-RUN

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Francis Mariani,

BTW, it's unfortunate that we cannot include the TITLE and DESCRIPTION attributes in a DEFINE that's in a fex, not in a mas.

Here's another example using the CAR file. I created a profit field and a mouseover for the Title and the data element. I would like to have the information in the data element mouseover be on two lines. Retail Cost on one line and Dealer Cost on another line. How do I put a line break in the mouseover. Thanks

Here's the code ...

-*
-SET &TITLE_MSG = '<span style="cursor: default;" ' | 'title="Retail Cost minus Dealer Cost">Profit</span>';
-*
DEFINE FILE CAR
PROFIT/D7          = RETAIL_COST - DEALER_COST;
T1_PROFIT/A12      = FPRINT(PROFIT, 'D7', 'A12');
T1_RETAIL_COST/A12 = FPRINT(RETAIL_COST, 'D7', 'A12');
T1_DEALER_COST/A12 = FPRINT(DEALER_COST, 'D7', 'A12');
MO_PROFIT/A255 =
'<span style="cursor: default;" title=''Retail Cost = ' | T1_RETAIL_COST | 'Dealer Cost = ' |
T1_DEALER_COST | '''>' | T1_PROFIT | '</span>';
END
-*
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
MO_PROFIT AS '&TITLE_MSG'
RETAIL_COST
DEALER_COST
PROFIT
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
BY MODEL
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=MO_PROFIT, JUSTIFY=RIGHT, $
ENDSTYLE
END

This is an example of an embedded new-line in the title attribute:

-SET &TITLE_MSG = '<span style="cursor: default;" ' | 'title="Retail Cost minus Dealer Cost">Profit</span>';

DEFINE FILE CAR
PROFIT/D7          = RETAIL_COST - DEALER_COST;
T1_PROFIT/A12      = FPRINT(PROFIT, 'D7', 'A12');
T1_RETAIL_COST/A12 = FPRINT(RETAIL_COST, 'D7', 'A12');
T1_DEALER_COST/A12 = FPRINT(DEALER_COST, 'D7', 'A12');
MO_PROFIT/A255 =
   '<span style="cursor: default;" title="'
|| 'Retail Cost = ' || (' ' | LJUST(12, T1_RETAIL_COST, 'A12'))
|| ( ' ' | '&|#013;'
|| 'Dealer Cost = ' || (' ' | LJUST(12, T1_DEALER_COST, 'A12'))
|| '">') || T1_PROFIT || '</span>';
END
-RUN

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
MO_PROFIT AS '&TITLE_MSG'
RETAIL_COST
DEALER_COST
PROFIT
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
BY MODEL
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=MO_PROFIT, JUSTIFY=RIGHT, $
ENDSTYLE
END
-RUN

& # 0 1 3 ; is a new line. The | in & | # 0 1 3 ; is required because WF interprets the ampersand as a Dialogue Manager variable.

Anything more sophisticated than my example above requires CSS, and/or JavaScript or jQuery. (as per the second link below, you could embed a tab character to line up the titles)

Here are two good threads on StackOverflow:
newline in < td title=“”> [duplicate]
How can I use a carriage return in a HTML tooltip?

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Francis Mariani,

That is what I was looking for!!

Thank You Francis