Reporting Services Tool Tips

21 02 2012

What has your experience been with using tool tips in Reporting Services reports? This feature gets some mixed reviews. I see it work and I see it, well, not work so well at times and under certain conditions. …but I’m interested in your unbiased feedback. If you’ve used this feature and you have something to say about it, please post a comment. I’d like to start a dialog. I have some thoughts and experience with this but I’d like to know what others think, first. Oh, and by the way, members of the Reporting Services product development team may be listening.

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Date : February 21, 2012
Categories : SSRS Design

7 responses

1 08 2012: Jochen Juelke (@JJuelke) (04:19:40) :

Tooltips are great…if they work! Currently i’m troubleshooting a tooltip on a sparkline-series…in BIDS the tooltips are displayed but not on server NO, its not the “zoom other then 100%” bug mentioned on msconnect, must be another bug, no solution found so far..anyone with a list regarding tooltip-fixes in SP1 and SP2 Release of SQL2008=?

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10 04 2012: Joseph Clark (09:00:34) :

Sometime they work fine. Cannot seem to get them to work with Stripline collection.

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1 03 2012: md (23:20:14) :

First experience EPIC fail… Funny as hell tho, our user base is Internet Explorer and they don’t work at all for our report when using IE 8. Google Chrome, they work like a charm. Go figure.

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24 02 2012: dumstattd (11:54:23) :

Dear Paul,

I have used them several times. Mostly where i need to show details about an ID field. One example is that I show a user id in the report but the users also want full contact information as well. To reserve real estate i put it into a tool tip. It is very useful to preserve minimal report width and size but still show information.

Thanks

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24 02 2012: Toine (09:49:52) :

I’ve used them a few times when the business users want to show the transaction comments within the report. Instead of putting this comment in the table directly I use an image and put the comment as the tooltip. For this it works quite ok. Though i’ve noticed that it sometimes doesn’t want to disappear by itself, but i haven’t had the time to troubleshooting that yet.

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21 02 2012: JJ Burnam (@AmbivalentGeek) (06:40:38) :

As a user I can’t stand tool tips in any application. I have done a little SSRS development and have not used tool tips at all.

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21 02 2012: surendra (01:44:29) :

Dear Paul,

I want some clarification regarding Data sets in the Reporting Services.

if we want to create the dataset in sql server we combine the different tables using the join conditions. but if we want to create the dataset using different lists in sharepoint its not allowing me to combine those lists.

can you please help me regarding this issue and help me how to join the different lists as one dataset to create the report.

Thank you..

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