I have made a Visio, which shows graphically the connections of a video router.
In the next step I tried to make a Tooltip which is shown I hoover over. The information of the Tooltip should show the input port connected to the output port.
This works fine if I configure a output port shape data field like this:
Element -> DVKS1 // name of the router element
Tooltip -> linked to Input [param:DVKS1,452,3]
If I hoover over the output port then the Tooltip appears with "linked to Input 4".
Now I want to be a little more flexible (there are several routers and each has 256 inputs and outputs), but I can 't solve the problem by my own:-(.
I try to work with placeholders or variables in the shape data field but it doesn't work:
Element -> DVKS1 // name of the router element
Info -> Name
Tooltip -> linked to Input [param:*,452,3]
Also this doesn't work:
Element -> DVKS1 // name of the router element
Info -> Name
Tooltip -> linked to Input [param:[Name],452,3]
Also this doesn't work:
Element -> DVKS1 // name of the router element
Info -> Name
Output -> 3 / number of the output port
Tooltip -> linked to Input [DVKS1,452,[var:Output]]
Can you give me a hint to solve this problems?
Thank you very much
Gregor
Try the following:
Element -> DVKS1
Info -> Name
Tooltip -> linked to Input [param:[this element],452,3]
Options -> ForcePropertyFromShape
I am kind of surprised that your 2nd option (with the [NAME] placeholder) doesn't work, as well as the last one. Could you give some more info on how you populate the variable in the last one and what version you are on?
Okay, so using info tags as placeholders is only possible as of main release 10.1.0 and feature release 10.0.13. That means it makes sense that [NAME] doesn’t work here.
About the output var I’m not sure what you mean. Could you try making a variable shape that displays the value of this variable and tell me what it shows?
Regarding the solution I gave, that is kind of surprising.
The version you are working on is quite a way off from the most recent code bases we have, so I might be overlooking something here. Feel free to contact someone at skyline to investigate it further.
1) Now one thing works now :-). If I work with [this element] together with
Options -> ForcePropertyFromShape
Thank you
Not working is to replace the static entry in the param[..] with var:Output
and set the shape data value of Output to 4. A result is returned as if the value of Output would be empty. But thank you for your help 🙂
Yeah, it’s still unclear to me what your output var contains or should contain. For starters, you could try to verify if the variable itself is shown like I stated in my earlier comment and if all else fails, people at skyline will be happy to help 🙂
Well, I tried to do it, like you have written. The consequence is, that the visio object (output port) is not shown on the window. Is disappears :-(.
I’m working with DataMiner (10.0.0.0-9449-CU5).
And to your last question: I populate the variable Output only in the shape data field. Is this false?