Display a structure/image in a tooltip for a visualization in TIBCO Spotfire

Prior to this task:

✓ Data must have at least one structure/image column.

✓ Visualization must be added.

1️⃣ Active visualization ➡ hover over and select  [Properties]

2️⃣ Properties window ➡ select Tooltip

3️⃣ Tooltip options ➡ select [Add...]

4️⃣ Add Tooltip Value window ➡ Column ➡ select

• structure/image column of interest
• Display name
• Edit expression

5️⃣ Add Tooltip Value window➡ Name ➡ type new name

6️⃣ Add Tooltip Value window➡ select

• Get content from ➡ (Selected column)
• Show as* ➡ modify settings accordingly
• Size
• Include value name in tooltip

7️⃣ Add Tooltip Value window➡ select [OK]

8️⃣ Tooltip options ➡ select Tooltip format

9️⃣ Properties window ➡ select [Close]

Supporting Knowledge 

Show as*: Select ChemDraw or RDKit options for displaying structures and select the Images Renderer available for displaying images.

Note: Your company may have set up a type of virtual column producer that can take the values from the selected column and transform them into a desired output. For example, the Structure Column could be used to show molecular structures from an information link in the labels.

Note: This type of tooltip only works with scatter plots and outliers of box plots.