Oracle APEX Dynamic Action Plugin - APEX Tooltip

A powerful, flexible APEX plugin enabling you to easily create semantic, modern tooltips. Using the open source JQuery plugin tooltipster.

Changelog

1.2 - Removed unsupported positions like top-left, bottom-right from plugin (tooltipster migration guide) / upgraded tooltipster to newest version 4.1.5

1.1 - Added text source (freetext, text from item, text from title attribute of affected element) / upgraded tooltipster to newest version 4.1.2

1.0 - Initial Release

Install

• Import plugin file "dynamic_action_plugin_de_danielh_apextooltip.sql" from source directory into your application
• (Optional) Deploy the JS and CSS files from "server" directory on your webserver and change the "File Prefix" to webservers folder.

Plugin Settings

The plugin settings are highly customizable and you can change:

• Theme - APEX Tooltip theme (5 different themes to choose from)
• Content Text Source - Source of the tooltip content text (Freetext, Text from item, Text from HTML title attribute of affected element)
• Content Text - Content text of the tooltip
• Content with HTML - If the content of the tooltip is provided as a string, it is displayed as plain text by default. If this content should actually be interpreted as HTML, set this option to true
• Animation - Determines how the tooltip will animate in and out (Fade, Grow, Swing, Slide, Fall)
• Position - Set the position of the tooltip (Top, Bottom, Left, Right)
• Trigger - Set how tooltips should be activated and closed. Default 'hover'
• Delay - Delay how long it takes (in milliseconds) for the tooltip to start animating in. Default 200ms.
• min Width - Set a minimum width (in pixels) for the tooltip. Default: 0 (auto width)
• max Width - Set a maximum width (in pixels) for the tooltip. Default: null (no max width)
• Logging - Whether to log events in the console

Plugin Events

• APEX Tooltip - on Show - DA event to do things when a tooltip opens
• APEX Tooltip - on Hide - DA event to do things when a tooltip closes

How to use

• Create a new Dynamic Action with event "onload" (other events also possible)
• As action choose "APEX Tooltip".
• Choose best fitting plugin attributes (help included)
• Choose Affected Elements which tooltips are binded to (Items, Buttons, Regions or JQuery Selectors)

In your Report/ Interactive Report

• You have 2 columns, one is visable and the hidden one holds the tooltip text
• HTML Expression of visible column:

<span class="ir_tooltip" title="#TEXT_HIDDEN_COLUMN#">#DISPLAY_COLUMN#</span>

In the Plugin settings

• Content text source: Text from title attribute
• Affected Elements: JQuery Selector --> .ir_tooltip

Demo Application

https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=APEXPLUGIN

Preview

• tooltipster