Add New (Tooltip) Values

Each linked shape usually carries a symbol, one or more labels and a tooltip value, determined by the underlying M-Files object.

Open the “Values” section in the Properties pane on the right to see these values or change them. You will notice that each element already has a few entries and the menu area is divided into different components.

You can edit these values with the pencil icon or add new values by clicking on the plus icon next to each entry. After selecting the plus symbol next to Values, you can choose to create a New Value or a New Tooltip Value. Depending on which entry you select, a different dialog appears.

If you select New Value, the Add New Value window opens. Here you can select numerous settings for the content and format of the symbol item and its labels. On the left-hand side of the window, you can find options for value entries, on the right-hand side is the text or condition field:

1. At the upper left-hand side, there is the preview for symbols and labels that are already created. With the buttons / you can enlarge or reduce this preview. Additional labels can be created by using the plus icon .
2. The drop-down menu Metadata contains all metadata of the linked object. To fill a new label with metadata of the linked object, select the metadata above and click the plus icon .
3. You can define attributes and contents of a symbol or label in the Item Attributes area:
   • If you select the symbol itself in the preview, you can use standard normal attributes for LineStyle, LineColor or FillColor or you can use conditional attributes that change dynamically, e.g. by changing the metadata of the object. For further information, see Working with conditional Values.
   • If you select a label in the preview, you can use the normal standard attributes for Text (content), FontColor, LineStyle, LineColor or FillColor or you can use conditional attributes that change dynamically e.g. by changing the metadata of the object. For further information see Working with conditional Values.
4. Display options are available in the Display Mode and Title sections:
   • Show Title specifies if the title of the metadata property or only its contents are displayed. If you activate this option, you can also manually adjust the display in the Title area.
   • Show Icon specifies if the M-Files icon of a property is displayed.
   • Show Value specifies if to display the contents of a metadata property, for example, if you want to display the icon only.
   • Word Wrap specifies if the textual content of a label is automatically wrapped.
   • Number Multiple Entries Depending on which property you have previously selected from the dropdown menu, multiple values may be displayed in the label. If you activate this item, they will be numbered.
   • Number Single Entry Specify whether a single value should also be numbered. Please note that this only takes place if multiple values could theoretically exist.

     

Often it is not practical to display all context information and metadata properties directly on the map. This would make the visualization look too overloaded and would irritate the user. Therefore, you can display additional important information in the context of a symbol, task, or M-Files object, in so-called Tooltip Values.

Tooltips in M-Files Process Maps can be created in HTML code. This enables you to use the HTML syntax for hyperlinks, tables, formatting and links to web services or mailto etc.

After clicking on the plus symbol next to the heading Values and selecting the entry New Tooltip Value the window Edit Tooltip Values opens:

1. On the left side, all existing tooltip entries are listed. As you can see, new objects already contain the name or title and the object ID as tooltip value.
2. You can download predefined tooltip combinations including the M-Files syntax from the central storage using the arrow button (see Value Templates from Storage).
3. Use the plus button to add a new tooltip value to the list.
4. Use the up / down arrow buttons to resort the tooltips.
5. Use the pen button to edit existing tooltips and change their contents.
6. The minus button can be used to remove tooltips from the list.

Confirm your selection with a click on Apply so that the tooltips are modified.