Hover Box with Custom Text Feature for Version 7.1

Overview

OnePager Pro, OnePager Express, and OnePager Bundle version 7.1 are upgraded with the addition of an enhanced Hover Box with Custom Text feature.

The purpose of this article is to overview the enhanced Hover Box with Custom Text feature and the controls available to use the feature in the Chart Editor. Additionally, several examples are provided.

This article uses the Chart Properties form for most of its examples. For brevity, this article does not cover the features in the Template Properties form related to this version 7.1 upgrade because the controls in the Template Properties form are identical to those of the Chart Properties form.

Illustrations used in this article are from OnePager Pro using data from Microsoft Project but the feature's function, controls, and manual edits apply equally to other OnePager editions that import from source plans like Microsoft Excel, Smartsheet, and Oracle Primavera P6.

Enhanced Hover Box with Custom Text Feature

The Hover Box is a feature within the Chart Editor that, when turned ON, allow you to hover your mouse over a task bar/milestone symbol in the chart and quickly see the task bar’s start/finish dates, task name, and Unique ID number. Using new controls provided in the Template Properties and Chart Properties form’s Comment Box tab, you have the capability to change the font properties of the text elements contained in the Hover Box and to select an alternative field from your source plan to be shown in the Hover Box instead of the text elements mentioned previously as standard.

Standard Hover Box Text Elements

The standard text elements in the OnePager Hover Box looks like the example below:

As shown above, the Hover Box shows the task bar’s Start/Finish dates in the top line, the Task Name in the second line, and the task bar’s Unique ID in the third line. Moving the mouse cursor off the task bar or milestone symbol causes the Hover Box to disappear from the graph.

Alternative Custom Text for the Hover Box

The controls associated with the enhanced Hover Box with Custom Text feature are contained in the Template Properties and Chart Properties form’s Comment Box tab as shown below in the Hover Boxes sub-control group:

There are two controls shown in the Hover Boxes sub-control group shown above.

The Font dropdown accesses the standard Font properties form as shown here:

The Display Text: sub-control group provides the option, using radio buttons, to (1) display the standard text elements in the Hover Box or (2) select an alternative source plan field to display as the only text element in the Hover Box as illustrated below:

In the illustration above, the Custom field: radio button is selected which enables the field selection dropdown. Resource Names is the source plan field selected and when the Hover Box is turned ON and the mouse is hovered over a task bar or milestone symbol, that task bar or milestone symbol’s name is the text content of the Hover Box as shown here:

The Font properties form can be accessed at any time to change the font appearance of the Hover box text elements as you require. The feature automatically creates multi-line text elements depending on the font size and the length of the text element string.

If the selected Custom field does not contain any data or is blank, the Arrow head-plus cursor symbol is shown when you mouse over the task bar/milestone symbol as shown below:

Turning the Hover Box Feature ON and OFF

The Hover Box feature can be turned ON and OFF from the checkbox on the View tab of the OnePager ribbon tool bar tab as shown below with the checkbox checked ON:

As a reminder where the controls are located for managing the enhanced Hover Box feature, a tool tip is provided as shown below:

Additionally, there is a Hover Box control checkbox available in the Template Properties and Chart Properties form’s Advanced tab in the Display options sub-control group as shown below for the Chart Properties form:

Related Links

Creating and Managing Comment Boxes

Editing with the Chart Properties form (Portal)

Comment Boxes Tab

Advanced Tab

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