No interactivity in Gantt chart

Hello everyone,
I'm designing my first gantt chart, and it is quite frustrating to have to notice that the interactivity doesn't work.
I just selected Value(Y) Series, then I clicked on the Interactivitivity button where I choosed Mouse Over as event and Show Tooltip as action.
In the text box for the action details I entered row["STARTDATE"], that way I'd like for each bar the start date to be displayed.
But nothing happens, after I have run the report. In fact the startdate is not displayed when I move the mouse cursor over the bars.

Best regards.

Edy

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bhanley

Edy,

It sounds as though you are setting this up correctly. I have attached a simple design that does exactly what you describe in case you would like to look it over as a reference.

Is there any chance the "StartDate" field is not populated with a value? Did you select that field using the expression editor?

One thing you can try is to simply enter a static string in the expression editor. Entering "Tool Tip Test" for the tool tip will give you the exact same text for all tool tips, but it will at least allow you to confirm you can see a tool tip on your chart.

Good Luck.

--Brian

edydecolog

I have tried it with a static string several times before, and it hasn't work.
I really have no approach, how I could fix it.

Edy

bhanley

Can you post a copy of your design?

edydecolog

Hi,
I have attached a copy of the report to this message. I hope that way to have given all you need to be able to answer the question.

Thanks.

Edydecolog

bhanley

What version of BIRT are you using? I was warned that the Design you posted was created with an older version of BIRT. Second, what browser are you testing in? Is this on the Preview tab inside the designer? Using the View Report button on the toolbar? An external browser?

Were you able to try out the sample I posted last week that has the Tooltip working correctly? It uses the BIRT sample database so you can run it on your machine.