Create '[more]...' link in a report to display the full description

[bioCam]

Hello,

I have to display the first 25 characters of a Complaint Description data item in my list report followed by a link '[more]...' so the user can click on to display the full description which could be a new pop-up window.

I have been researching quite a bit but I am not finding any solution close to what I need to achieve :(.  I thought of using a tooltip which I tried but then I am not sure the maximum of characters it can handle.  The Complaint Description I was told could be several hundreds character long.  I don't have real data but I am going to test it out using static text for now.

Do you have any suggestion what is typically done in a report that has such a requirement? 

Thank you.

[CognosPaul]

There are a number of ways to achieve to what your trying to do.

One of the reports I've made uses a drillthrough to a comment data entry/history page. Every row has a 'comments' cell. Hovering over it displays the popup (latest comment) while clicking it opens the comments page in a new window.

I've also used something similar to this method for creating stylized tooltips. To the best of my knowledge there is no limit on the number of characters. Certainly more than a thousand. The benefit of using a custom tooltip is you can pretty it up to match the look and feel of your report. You can also easily modify the javascript to add images.

[bioCam]

Thank you PaulM.

One of your reports with drillthrough ...
1)  The hovering over to display a popup - is this a tooltip?
2)  The 'comments' cell has a drill through so that when click on will open a new window with comments.

The requirement from the client is to open a new window.  I think I would go with the stylized tooltips and if they still want a new window, I can make the cell a drill through.

Thank you so much for your help.  :)  :)

[CognosPaul]

The popup I was referring to was a stylized tooltip. onmouseover the javascript would populate a span with a string, and would position:absolute it to the right place then finally display:block. It seems that normal tooltips, made with the title attribute, have browser dependent max lengths.

Glad to be of help!